Ueno Park & Ameyoko Memories
Sunday, December 5th, 2010 | 52 Comments 
I could list a bunch of reasons I haven’t blogged 
but you probably already know them all from my twitter~ busy busy~ I have some photos from this weekend though I’ll probably put up tomorrow but right now here’s an entry I started, um, Wednesday? 
But never finished (lol, that sounds pathetic.)
I probably wasn’t going to blog much this coming week either but I wanted to finish out my Tokyo trip photos! So let’s try & do that this week OK! Yaaay~
So I want to talk about Ueno & my favorite part of the trip! 
Mike, my friend and myself went to Ueno Park then Ameyoko the day after I puked 24hours straight. I look, um, dehydrated? Lol. I was feeling just really miserable inside & out but Ueno really turned that around. Well at least in my head, my body was still weak but I was feeling quite happy to be out! 
Mike loves museums, especially science/natural history museums so we went to National Museum of Nature and Science. It was a lot like our Smithsonian or the Natural History Museum in NYC but it’s interesting to see everything from a different geographical perspective. 
You get so used to only seeing North American maps & European ancestors in all the displays! You don’t realize it until you don’t see it.
There’s a giant Blue Whale model outside. Prime photo-snap place. Difficult to get in the entire whale though! Haahaa!
Then we walked around the park for a bit. :good: Went over to the Toshogu Shrine. This was really one of my favorite places to visit on this trip.
We were the only ones there in the sweltering summer heat surrounded by chirping cicadas. 
There’s a cute, old fashioned (I guess?) concession stand outside the main entrance gate to the shrine. JAPANESE SUMMER TREATS/TOYS! I wanted to nap in happiness here! It was perfection! I spent some time at it, getting gachapon and just resting.
Us wandering around~
You could also purchase Ema for writing a wish on and leaving at the shrine. Like the summer concession stand, Ema hold this sort of iconic Japan place in my heart. This was actually the first wishing wall I’ve gotten to see in person. It was so lovely hearing the clanking sound of them rustling in the summer breeze. I think it was 300 yen to purchase one. Yes, I purchased one! But I wrote a really heartfelt goofy mushy wish so I’m not going to show it, haahaa~
A lot of these were dated in January, surprise~surprise, haahaa~ New year’s wishes~
Next we went to Ameyoko with a pitstop on the way at じゅらく for lunch! I got… hum, regular omurice! I wanted the spicy version but my stomach was all blaaaaaah =_=;;;;;
This restaurant has mechanized food dishes with steam coming out and noodles going up & down while being held by giant chopsticks! Well, giant bowl, giant noodles!
On to Ameyoko! Street stalls of cheap goods, cheap foods, souvenirs and such! Enjoyed some sweet honeydew melon on a stick here, bought an umbrella, and some tea in a goofy kitsch kimono girl souvenir canister for work, just ‘cuz Also had my friend pick me up some digestion medication for me here at the pharmacy. Japan has more digestive aids than I’d even know what to do with! :F So I waited until I saw her before attempting to buy some in broken Japanese since I lack any in depth sickness vocab.
We went and did a little plaza shopping too. Bought my cancan hat this day~
Apparently Rinka sent flowers to all the MercuryDuo shops for their anniversary or something. 
I forget and am too tired to look it up, but anyway, yaay 
She had that collab outerwear collection come out soon after this
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Jenny @ 7:58 pm ; Sunday (4 weeks ago) [url]
TAGS: japan trip, rinka, japanese food
whilst feeling 
Cheerful & 
Dead
Jenny
