We’d initially put together a pretty long itinerary for the day. Tsukiji Outer Market and the Omiya Railway Museum before noon, then Shinjuku Gyoen, Yoyogi Park and Harajuku – here’s apparently a Disney store there and Hannah’s Pluto plush toy I bought her when she was a 2 year old girl has gone from yellow to beige from age i.e. she could use a replacement – then a visit up Tokyo Tower to see the nightscape of the city, and finally winter illumination spots around the Tokyo Station. In the end, we finished the day’s sightseeing at Shinjuku Gyoen, as P was really starting to have difficulties sustaining his little feet from all the walking about by this point. The area comprises three different gardens, each themed quite differently: there’s the traditional Japanese garden, an English landscaped garden, and a French-styled garden – and even with more time than initially planned allocated to this spot, we covered just the first two only.
The kids thoroughly enjoyed this visit and busied themselves looking for fallen leaves, seeds, berries and assorted foliage on the ground – though we made both empty out their pockets and return everything back to the park before we left haha. The wife with her trusty Samsung S8+ took tons of pictures of flora to add to her collection of exhibits for her classroom.
Our notes on Shinjukoen Gyoen continues in the next post!
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