After Tokyo Sea Life Park, we ventured to the venerable town of Ueno. Ueno is one train stop away from our favorite pupu smorgasboard, Okachimachi. Home to Ameyoko.
Ueno is an interesting town with a little of everything. It is the home to many of the major public museums. It is also home to the Tokyo branch of the Toshogu temple. There is also a major park. As well as a zoo.
Ueno station is a major rail junction. At one point, the Ueno station was the terminus for the Tohoku Shinkansen.
Our adventure in Ueno started with a hamburger. Seeing all that seafood in captivity made us sympathetic to their cause. As such, we dined on the most Japanese of burgers. The MOS Burger. Anyway, chili burgers for the Japanese palate. The actual motivation was to have a light meal so that we can feast for dinner. (more on the feast later)
After lunch, we walked the grounds of Ueno Koen.
Ueno Koen is the home to the Shinobazu no ike. When viewing the pond, it is hard not to notice the overgrowth of leaves on the pond. My fellow travellers from Hawaii thought that this was giant taro leaves and had ideas of trying to import if back to Hawaii. They had dollar signs in their eyes until I rained on their parade. These giant leaves are lotus leaves.
These leaves are huge. It seems as if you can walk across the pond on these leaves.
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