A sunny day today but quite windy. It made me worry about the cherry blossoms so we determined to see some today.

We started today by taking the train to Ueno and buying tickets to visit the Tokyo National Museum. It’s a lovely museum in a gorgeous building. They have something in the region of 100,000 items but can only exhibit 4000 at any one time, so there’s a lot of rotation. Here are some of the wonderful things we saw:

We wandered the bottom floor for about 2 1/2 hours and then Maeve had had enough, so we gave the second floor (art) a miss. The below pic is of the museum garden.

After finishing up at the museum we wandered out into Ueno Park to have a look at some blossoms.

After a lovely stroll we jumped on a train to Asakusa. Spotted the Tokyo Skytree:

We had a yummy sushi lunch at Tsukiji sushi.

Corwin watched them catch these prawns before frying them up for him.

We then went to visit Senso-ji. It’s a Buddhist temple – the oldest in Tokyo.

We started at the Kaminarimon Gate (above) and walked down through the souvenir market to the main shrine. Yes – the souvenir market is essentially in the middle of the shrine.

Corwin tried green tea icecream.

The main temple area:

After that, we went full tourist and took a rickshaw ride.

And we finished the day with dinner at Ninja restaurant in Akasaka.

Loads of fun (a bit of ninja training, ninja cooking “magic” at our table, and a little magic show to finish) and really good food too. The fact that Maeve had to eat different food from us took some of the joy out of it for me, but she was a real champ about it.

Morgan’s cocktail:

And some food pics:

And that was that for our Tuesday. Full bellies, well entertained, we went home.