Today, I went to a really famous park in Tokyo called Ueno Park (上野公園), which is also the location of the famous zoo! I went there with my Japanese group because we are doing a Kanji project in which we have to take pictures of different kanji characters and then teach it to the class. Today, September 29th, is actually the start of this "Tokyo Green" Project because Tokyo is a candidate for the 2020 Olympics, so they have renovated selected parks in Tokyo into even more beautiful parks, and Ueno is one of them!! This is no ordinary park in that it just has trees and a little playground for children; it is filled with Shinto and Buddhist temples, art museums, contemporary museums. a concert hall, a zoo, even a lake where you can row boats... It's huge! My group walked around for 5 hours and we didn't even finish the entire park... That's how big it is, and if we were to explore every museum, a few days would be needed! There are also entertainers, street performers, food trucks, even farmer's markets!! Pictures will describe how pretty the park is :)
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Tokyo Green Project 2012
Map of the park! |
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| Natureeeeee! |
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| Beautiful flowers! |
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| Cool Architecture |
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| Street performer! |
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| New Chocolate Exhibit Coming soon! |
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| Windchimes made of different wood! |
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| He's using water to draw! |
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| He's drawing an elephant! |
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An elephant made
out of flowers !
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| Mirror reflecting the plants |
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| Kebab food truck. yumm! |
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| Tokyo National Museum |
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| Two cool men |
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| a pig from a long time ago! |
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| an ancient kimono! |
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| model of ancient horse! |
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| Outside of the museum - big tree! |
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| Beautiful fountain! |
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Those strips of paper hanging from the trees are wishes!
Many were about the Tohoku earthquake last year. |
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| Shrine! |
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| Fortunes and wishes! |
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| Buddha monument |
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| Walking through to a Temple |
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| Famous temples |
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| Almost to the lake inside the park! |
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| More temples! |
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The lake at the end of the park
& the city view |
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| paper temple? |
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| Mini Amusement Park for kids! |
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| There's a special exhibit about Egypt and here's the gift shop for Egyptian Hello Kitty! |
Even though you can find a peaceful, yet crowded, natural place to stay at in Ueno Park, you will never guess that the other side of the Ueno station is a busy, bustling city, especially at night! All the food stands are still available, lots of stores for shopping, and stores and stores for UFO catchers! You can get two different feels in one little section of the city! I will definitely come back soon for more exploration!!
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| I found my favorite bakery!!! |
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Happy me and bread !
Green tea and red bean bread,
milky french, white bread,
and sweet potato pie! |
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Egyptian bread! with the
museum exhibit theme! |
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| Entrance to busy street! |
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| City lights & night time! |
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| All these stores and stands! |
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| Sky Tree!! Can you see the moon? it's a full moon too! |
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| Fresh fish!! |
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| Fruit stand! |
Later, we went to Harajuku for shopping!! Right when you get out of the station, there is a huge sign leading to the street called "Takeshita Dori" and it is a street filled with the latest fashion for a cheap-er price. Everything is really cute and it is so crowded at night time with young people! The crepes there are especially amazing :) !!
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| Entrance to Takeshita Dori! |
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| They have Daiso here!! |
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| Yummmmmm crepes! |
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Green tea cheesecake crepe!
even the cheesecake is green tea flavored! |
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| The inside of my crepe! |
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| Look what I found! |
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| City Night Life! |
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| Godivaaaa Ice cream drink! |
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| Shopping stores! |
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| Harajuku at night#1 |
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| Harajuku at night#2 |
I will be back for more shopping and yummy crepes!!
maybe I will send this one of you :)
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Postcard I made with stamps
at Tokyo National Museum
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