Autumn in Tokyo
If you had the impression we've hardly been in Tokyo this autumn, you're half right. I've hardly been in Tokyo. Ingrid has not been travelling quite as much as me, but still.
The autumn leaves are quite a big deal in Japan, I think I mentioned before. Although the colours were on full display when we went up North back in October, in Ueno park they were only starting to yellow at the start of November.
My parents came to visit at the end of November, and stayed for almost two weeks. They arrived early so we took them for a walk around Koishikawa Botanical Gardens to stave off the jet lag on their first morning.
The colours were spectacular.
A carp show! The pictures do not do justice to how chonky these fish are. They are big. And there were many hundreds of them. I guess there were judges somewhere giving prizes for best fish. You could also buy them.
This great sentinel stands gard over Kappabashi Kitchen Town, where all your kitchen supply needs can be met. My parents required children's chopsticks for their grandaughter.
After a long day of walking about they probably would have preferred not to have dinner under the busy railway tracks at Ueno Station, but that's what happens when you leave all the decision making to me!
Early evening by the Kanda river at Iidabashi. Or is it a canal? Hard to say. The little cafe down by the waterfront is called "Canal Cafe" so maybe that's a clue.
We found some time to go look at the Hokusai exhibition before it left town. Hokusai is very good at drawing.
Improptu musical entertainment when a team of half-cut doctors piled into the tiny bar opposite the flat for a final drink.