Imperial Palace

We took the monorail and train to Yurakucho where, instead of getting on the subway, we took a gentle stroll past the Imperial Palace towards our hotel. The gardens in which the Imperial Palace is housed were beautiful and we got our first sight of the blooming cherry blossom cascading over the moat walls and into the water below. Tokyo was very much defying expectations at this point - it was low rise, open air and, in the gardens at least, incredibly quiet...certainly not the extravagant excess that we had expected.Les mer