Tokyo Travel

Day 15 – Travelogue – Museums Shut Monday – Ueno Park – Narita

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2023年9月16日

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Again to Day 14 – Underground to Ginza, Buying, Ginza GoldFish Aquarium, and Tokyo Skytree

At present is my final half-day in Tokyo and my flight out was at 5 PM. This implies you ought to be on the airport (Narita in my case) by 2 PM to be 3 hours early for a global flight. You by no means know if there might be some unlucky occasion that disrupts the trains, safety checks, airline techniques, and many others. This implies I needed to depart Tokyo Station by 2 PM or so, relying on which Narita Specific I wished to catch. In case you are leaving from Oshiage up by the Skytree there’s a common commuter practice that also takes about the identical period of time to Narita. This practice is extra direct even when it travels slower with extra stops, however it is advisable to be approach up by the Skytree to reap the benefits of it.

My plan was to simply take it straightforward across the Imperial Palace, taking within the East Gardens, however to my shock, it was closed on Mondays. It seems numerous some of these authorities run websites are on authorities museum schedules, which implies they shut on Mondays. I suppose I may have walked across the palace grounds/moat, as folks jog round it, however I suppose I wasn’t within the temper. I may have additionally gone to the Mori Museum or one thing else for just a few hours too. I used to be thrown off as I often depart on a Sunday when issues are open!

Anyhow, on with my day. I began the day without work at a Starbucks that was on my option to Tokyo Station after testing from my resort. I grabbed a bit of quiche (actual quiche!) and a espresso, sat down by the window, and watched commuters strolling to work in huge waves of humanity.

Starbucks espresso and quiche.

After breakfast, I went to the practice station and I used to be stunned I wasn’t capable of finding a coin locker to retailer my suitcase within the central areas of the station. I ended up going to the northeast nook and there have been lockers their. It seems that the coin lockers within the northern east-west passage refill final and there have been many lockers out there for big suitcases. I then walked west in direction of the imperial palace. This was once I realized that the grounds have been closed. I made a decision to go to Ueno Park as a substitute to stroll round. It was a simple single practice experience to get there.

Park on the way in which to the imperial palace.

Previous fortification wall of some type.

Good park.

Imperial Palace guard tower on the east facet. Everybody sees this one if they’ll the gardens.

Downtown Marunouchi on a Monday morning.

Ueno Park within the winter. The lotus ponds are all yellow now and not likely all that enticing.

Temple.

Ginkyo tree in full yellow.

On reflection, I may have completed just a few issues that morning, however it will have been rushed. I may have gone to Roppongi or Akihabara once more too, however I simply did not really feel like procuring or museums on the time. The park was good and I ended up again at Tokyo Station simply earlier than midday. I wished to attempt a very nice oyakodon lunch and there was at the least one restaurant there that served it. Tamahide, a well-known restaurant was closed for renovations. I went to Ito Washigoro Syo-ten (伊藤和四五郎商店グランスタ東京店) within the B1 stage of Gransta and had an ideal lunch.

Show exterior of Ito Washigoro. Additionally they do yakitori and such. They focus on hen.

My lunch set with a hen and egg rice bowl!

After lunch it was just about time to get on the NEX Specific practice to Narita. View out the practice on the way in which to Narita.

Homes passing by.

A 5 PM departure form of sucks from Tokyo because it does not provide you with a lot time in your final day to do something. I feel I would favor a 8 or 9 PM departure or at the least 6 PM. Verify-in and such was a bit chaotic because it turned out that my ticket was not Air Canada, however ANA or one thing. This got here to chunk me on the butt for the bags switch in Vancouver later.

The second safety robotic I noticed in Tokyo was on the airport.

There are comfort shops on the airport, one after safety, and at the least two earlier than safety. You’ll be able to burn some leftover money and such to purchase all of the snacks/sweet/immediate noodles earlier than you board.

Returning to Canada went with out a lot issue. The one difficulty I had
was with my switch in Vancouver. I assumed I used to be on an everyday code
share, however I wasn’t with Air Canada / ANA. My ANA flights have been labelled
ANA, not AC. Going to Japan had my baggage undergo seamlessly to
Tokyo, however on return, I needed to decide up my baggage, exit by means of customs,
and undergo safety once more to drop my bag off for a home
switch. Passengers that have been on a AC to AC flight quantity had their
luggage go all through to Edmonton. It is one thing I am going to look out
for subsequent time. It was a pleasant huge problem for no actual motive apart from
administrative agreements or contracts. Identical folks on the identical planes,
with completely different flight numbers. Additionally, the flights out at 5 PM form of
sucked for Narita, because it does chew up an additional afternoon you could possibly have
had in Tokyo. The final time I used to be in Japan I arrived by way of Haneda, and
left on a 6 PM flight. That meant I may dangle round in Tokyo till 3
PM, catch a monorail to Haneda (half-hour), after which check-in a lot
later. Haneda additionally has extra attention-grabbing issues to see/do on the airport
earlier than safety than Narita.