Tokyo Museum, Contemporary Art and Temples

For our first day in Tokyo we walked from Asakusa where we are staying into Tokyo central park area. Asakusa suburbs are mostly little square houses lining tiny streets intersected now and again by a large two-lane streets lined with shops and bigger buildings. The huge skytree tower is not far from our apartment. It looms over the area, with its peak disappearing into the clouds now and again.
It was very hot and humid, so after walking about 4km into Tokyo central we opted to visit the museum of contemporary art, which has an extensive collection of international art from across the ages. We got to see lots of works from lots of famous artists. After a nice Korean lunch we headed back into the cool environment of the National Museum, that has an extensive collection including lots of art and collectables from all of Asia. By the time we had enough of museums it was cool enough to walk home again via some of the temples, including Senso Ji. We also walked past the Asahi (beer) building with its big logo sculpture on its roof, colloquially called the flying turd! We walked under the skytree back home exhausted.Read more