We are delighted to wake to sun shining through our window and view of blue sky over the top of the local hills at last. We checkout at 10 leaving our bags there, and take the bus back to the Treasure Museum we missed yesterday. It is set in a gorgeous garden where colors are just starting to turn. It is mall but has some exquisite art pieces and many portraits of the 13 some shoguns who ruled here.
There is a big festival coming up on Sunday. This is why we had to play around with our dates in June to get hotel accommodation. They are prepared the site with a huge pile of soil up the middle of a long uphill drive to the main temple. Horsemen/archers will gallop up this track here on Sunday, shooting arrows at targets at the end of the run. thousands of people are expected so we are glad we won't be battling them. There is also to be a peony show, a cake competition and plenty of food and entertainment for the masses.
We return to town where I shop for lunch (cream caramel, fruit in jello cookies and nuts and raisins to sustain us over the train train back. The train ride back is very orderly, reserved seats, quiet - no cellphones on trains here. When you board they announce - turn off ringers on phones, make calls in the corridor, etc. the toilets are immaculate as usual. There are no big battles through Tokyo station with bags this time, and we know where we are going.
Back to the hotel at 6:30pm, our bags are back in our room, we unpack and I find my ski jacket at last. It's no so cool this evening but I am glad of it and cosy for the walk over the tracks. Nightime in Shinjuku is much like the Ginza, huge buildings, neon lights, action, lots of young active people out and about clubbing in this huge entertainment district.
The older part of it used to be seedy, it probably still is, but we have missed out going down Piss Alley this trip! We return to the little sushi restaurant where we had lunch on ur earlier stay, but have to wait for a table. Its all very fresh and good, all lashed down with sake and beer.
We have a nice quiet corner room so back at 10:30 I soak in my big bath and we are out cold until 8am in our very comfortable bed.
There is a big festival coming up on Sunday. This is why we had to play around with our dates in June to get hotel accommodation. They are prepared the site with a huge pile of soil up the middle of a long uphill drive to the main temple. Horsemen/archers will gallop up this track here on Sunday, shooting arrows at targets at the end of the run. thousands of people are expected so we are glad we won't be battling them. There is also to be a peony show, a cake competition and plenty of food and entertainment for the masses.
We return to town where I shop for lunch (cream caramel, fruit in jello cookies and nuts and raisins to sustain us over the train train back. The train ride back is very orderly, reserved seats, quiet - no cellphones on trains here. When you board they announce - turn off ringers on phones, make calls in the corridor, etc. the toilets are immaculate as usual. There are no big battles through Tokyo station with bags this time, and we know where we are going.
Back to the hotel at 6:30pm, our bags are back in our room, we unpack and I find my ski jacket at last. It's no so cool this evening but I am glad of it and cosy for the walk over the tracks. Nightime in Shinjuku is much like the Ginza, huge buildings, neon lights, action, lots of young active people out and about clubbing in this huge entertainment district.
The older part of it used to be seedy, it probably still is, but we have missed out going down Piss Alley this trip! We return to the little sushi restaurant where we had lunch on ur earlier stay, but have to wait for a table. Its all very fresh and good, all lashed down with sake and beer.
We have a nice quiet corner room so back at 10:30 I soak in my big bath and we are out cold until 8am in our very comfortable bed.
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