Monday, May 10, 2010

Taxi Mixup

On our first day of sightseeing around Tokyo Bridget and I got up early to get a head start on the day and to try and get ahead of the jet lag. While we were eating breakfast at the Executive lounge and trying to figure out what to do with our day I heard a fellow tourist say that they were going to the markets. And as I so easily do, I became obsessed with going to the markets so we asked our bell hop/concierge where to go. After doing some reaserch he sent us off in a taxi to Meiji Park. I don't know what happened between the three members of the hotel staff telling our driver to take us to Meiji Park and our taxi driver dropping us off at Yoiji Park but this little mixup ended up being a lovely surprise.

Yoiji Park was extremely interesting and delightful. There was just so much going on and the thing that struck us the most is that people didn't seem to notice or care
what any other group was doing. There was:

Dog Park: This was strictly run with a man checking id's and turning people away. Also interesting was that there were seperate areas for different sized dogs





<strong>Dance Rehersal: I said it was the Japanese version of America's Best Dance Crew and Bridget said they clearly didn't have dance studios.








Dodgeball: about 3 feet away from the dance rehersal





Blind Running Group: There were tons of blind runners running with seeing people and they held a band in between them.





Tai Chi


Many photo shoots:



Beautiful Fountains:


1 comment:

  1. Glad to hear you made it there and the adventures are already starting! Can't wait to hear more.

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