What a crackin' view!

Today we made full use of our metro passes and headed over to the west side of the city to a park where we thought a market was going to be held. Usually it is at the weekend but unfortunately on this particular weekend it was replaced with the Tokyo Outdoor Festival so no cheap fruit for us! It was still cool to look around the stalls though. We headed from there to a sky scrapper near by which you can visit the 45th floor for free to see the views over the Tokyo landscape. The view was spectacular and it's only when you're that high up do you realise just how big and industrialised Tokyo is. Seeing a patch of green was a novelty! After some food we headed to another park that is known for its different style gardens and cherry blossoms. The park was a little disappointing because their traditional Japanese garden was closed off without any prenotice before you pay to enter and we're not sure if we did enter the English garden or not! The grass also needed some serious watering! It was a nice park to explore though with lots of little tucked away areas and small ponds to find. We spent most of the afternoon there and then headed to what we hoped would be a cat cafe. Somewhere where you can literally have tea and play with cats! Online it said it was free to enter but it wasn't to be and at £9 each with drinks on top we decided actually that's a lot of just cats. There's a hedgehog one so we might head to that one instead. The area we were in was so cool though with its wide roads, bright lights and even a Godzilla peeking over the top of a building! For tea we headed to Korea town with the prospects of cheaper food. We found cheaper food but ate in a very dodgey place where smoking was allowed and with 3 tables smoking around us it was incredibly hard to not cough continously. We ate super fast and made a quick get away. We did stumble across a much nicer place where we went in and treated ourselves to gyoza which is something Nick has been wanting to try which were rather tasty indeed. It was then lovely returning to the hotel to a load of videos of Aeryn from my mum which was watched casually throughout the evening. So nice to see her and hear how much her speech is coming along! A nice end to a pretty good day.Read more