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| Ueno Station |
Where are we? Today is Wednesday in Tokyo. Yesterday I made a trip to the Ueno section of town. It was my second time there. First trip was just trippin', seeing the town. Yesterday I went to buy a suitcase. You remember the weight problem at the airport, well it is only going to be worse at Haneda. Someone, nameless for the moment, suggested I buy a bigger suitcase and redistribute the weight. How could a good socialist like me have not thought about redistribution? It may work, it may not work. I am allowed even less weight here. Not ANA's rules (the airline I am flying on), but United rules. They keep taking pounds away from me.
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| The "Alley." Actually there are more streets plus all of the side streets. |
As I walked through these streets that first day, I said to myself, "I one were going to buy a suitcase, this would be the place to do it." Little did I know.
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| Who could resist? |
I don't have time to do a lot of typing tonight. I'm a bit on the run, so I'll just put up photos.
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| A shrine in Ueno Park. |
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| There were lots & lots of these in the park. |
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| I'd be afraid to see the camel that wore this. |
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| Yes, they do dress like this for school. |
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| The old symphony hall in the park, near the university. |
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| The hall gets its own water cannon. |
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On those busy streets, you can buy food to take home and cook...
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| I don't know what the redness is about. |
or you can get it to eat right there.
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| Like vareniki or kreplach. |
Three dumplings were not going to do it, so I went to the stall next door and got some pig.
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| Pigfoot, without the bottle of beer. |
Ueno is one of the stops of most orchestras... behind the station and up the hill there is a multi-purpose hall, "Bunka Kaikan". It doesn't have very good acoustics but it seats 4000 people....
ReplyDeletethere is usually time to run through the streets to get something to eat before a concert.... on the go like that which you found; hmmm, very envious here....