Saturday 10/31
Today is a travel day. We are taking the bullet train (Shinkasen) from Tokyo to Osaka in the evening. Train tickets are actually pretty expensive. It would have been faster and cheaper to fly but the best fares were from Narita to Kansai which would add hours and lots of cost to the trip.
We checked out of our Airbnb this morning, placed our luggage in lockers at Tokyo Station, and went to see a few local sights.
Tokyo Station. It's our 3rd time through the station and I still got lost. It took forever for us to find enough empty lockers to store our luggage for the day.
Imperial Castle. After lunch, we went on a free tour of the East Garden given by volunteers in English. Here is their blog post for that day.
One of the tour groups. They broke us up into 4 groups. Their guide spoke perfect American English.
We left the tour after about an hour and took the train to Shibuya. There was a Starbucks nearby so we took a break. The workers kept coming over to tell us not to take pictures. I don't get why.
Shibuya scramble crossing. Lots of people crossing the street.
We then took the train one station to Harajuku Bridge. We were hoping to see people in crazy clothing but there was no one there. This is the Daiso on Takeshita Street (竹下通).
Fancy crepes
Heading back to Tokyo Station. Some had subway lines over 1km from each other.
Nozumi Shinkasen
Train interior. Top speed of the train was about 180 mph. Too bad it was dark so we could not see anything outside.
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