A few weeks ago on Saturday, July 12th, we went to Koishikawa Korakuen Garden in the northern part of Tokyo. It's a surprisingly big place and usually doesn't feel like it's right in the middle of the biggest city in Japan. We took a ton of pictures, but I just uploaded a small portion of them so you can get a taste of what it was like.
Looking down toward the Full Moon bridge.
The Full Moon bridge - so called because when you view the bridge together with it's reflection, it looks like the full moon.
Here's the garden and the city (and me) together.
It's hard to tell in the picture, but what I'm pointing to is a bunch of kanji on this rock. No clue what it says.
These bugs were gross! You could hear them on the tree, all fighting to get into that little hole. Cinnamon snapped the picture while I scooted on ahead.
I wanted to call this picture 'Cinnamon "running"', since she's not actually running, but Windows wouldn't let me add quotation marks to the file name.
Just a random shot of an earthworm I found along the path.
We had a hard time getting both of us and the bridge in the picture.
I really like how this picture turned out~
It was a very, very hot day - with temperatures up near 100 degrees. Apparently a number of people suffered heat stroke that day.
It was so hot, even the skyscrapers were melting.
In case you're wondering why this picture's so much different from the last one, it's because there are ducks in it! Happy ducks, trying to stay cool.
After we left the park, we walked down the street to Tokyo Dome City, where there was a baseball game going on (or soon to be going on) at the stadium. We know the Yomiuri Giants were playing, since everyone was decked out in their Giants gear, but we have no idea who they were playing.
Since we have zero interest in baseball (and no tickets), we walked across the street to LaQua - a little complex with stores, restaurants and amusements.
True to its name, LaQua has a lot of water.
Major league baseball shop right by the Wonder Drop (sponsored by Pocari Sweat - an "ion supply drink". For those curious, it tastes similar to orange Gatorade). Japan sure does love baseball.
Another ferris wheel (and a roller coaster)! This one is called the Big O and is the world's first and largest centerless ferris wheel. ...Or so Wikipedia tells me. At only 60m, it's not nearly as tall as the Odaiba Sky Wheel.
Once we left the park, we went to find a place to grab dinner and ended up getting caught in a surprise downpour. Since we didn't bring our umbrellas, we had to seek shelter under the eaves of a building. When the rain let up, we headed back to the station and went to Shibuya for dinner and to pick up a few things from Gain, which was having a sale.
I'll post more about my birthday and everything else later. Expect more regular posts from now on, and don't by shy about leaving us a comment to let us know you're reading! Otherwise it feels like my hard work goes to waste.
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