Japan Day 4

Another day in Tokyo. This one was better.

We saw the Imperial Palace (from a distance). The emperor still lives there after all.

That is part of the Imperial Palace complex in the distance with Nijubashi bridge in front.

We went to the Harajuku district (of Gwen Stefani fame). Harajuku is where the young kids hang out in their crazy, wild outfits. Although we didn`t see anything too outlandish.

One of the busy streets in Harajuku. They had an H&M store and a Top Shop. Although I didn`t find anything I liked.

Takeshita Dori (street). This is where are the cool stores for the cool kids are.

I spied these in a store. How come we don`t have these back home?

We went to the Meiji Jingu shrine and caught a wedding procession. Tokyo`s most venerable Shinto Shrine.

Not a great picture. The bride is in white with a hood over her.

We attempted to go to a beautiful park, Shinjuku Gyoen, but gave up when we both got bitten by mosquitoes before even making it to the park. Most of the "parks" in Tokyo are instead heavily wooded areas that are completely impassable except for on the path. And make you think that the city really isn`t that humid when compared to the inside of one of these parks.

A lot of the restrautants have plastic relicas of the food you will find inside. They are supposed to entice you in, but they mostly look disgusting to me. I love this one with the tongs "frozen" while pulling up the pasta in the top plate (not sure if you can see this well in the photo).

Also, we saw a sign while on the train the other day for a laundromat that claimed to wash and "dry" your clothes. We laughed over it because why the　ｑｕｏｔａｔｉｏｎｓ? Is "dry" just a figure of speech?

Tomorrow we leave Tokyo to head to Hakone near mount Fuji. Not sure if the internet will be available there. I`m gonna miss out tiny little hotel room.