Plum Blossoms!

We wandered back up to Kichijoji station through Inokashira Park to discover that the various plums and some early cherry blossoms were out in bloom! Very lovely to see such a nice variety of colours and even some pretty Birdlife wandering about.

I also saw a young male gymnast doing full blown giants on the metal exercise rails which was very Japan but also super crazy cool!

We quickly ducked into a secondhand bookstore near the train station to see if they by any chance had Alice in Wonderland
(Michael wanted to get a Japanese version of some sort), and sure enough, they had a small box set of Alice's Adventures Underground, and it came with the Japanese copy as well as the English Copy, but the English Copy is a replica of the very original Lewis Carroll handwritten manuscript. And the best bit... Cost $600 yen (so just under $6 AUD). Absolute score!Read more