Day 4
Senso-ji Temple
Yanaka Cemetary
Tokyo National Museum
Great Buddha Pagoda
Toshogu Shrine
Meiji Shrine

 
Senso-ji Temple
scurrying in the light drizzle. Past the Thunder gate. 

Down the line of gew gaw stalls not yet open. To the temple. 
Yanaka Cemetery
So, here's the inevitable cemetery. 

Cause, blah, blah, blah, No matter the who or the culture, everyone ever born, dies. 

The differentiation is in the dressings. 

Which makes me 
macabre. Morose. Brooding. Oooh, look cherry trees. 
This is one of the few cemeteries I've seen with a playground in the middle.

Tokyo National Museum
In the rain, the heart of a young tourist turns lightly to museums. Mmmm…central heating. 

Oh, and beautiful ceramics, lacquerware, textiles, weapons, statuary, paintings, etc. Etcetera. Etcetera. Grand hand waving not included.
Ueno Park...again
After touring three of the buildings of the Tokyo Museum, time to finish off Ueno park. 

Tracked down the Great Buddha pagoda, which was hiding the evening before.
 
Tracked down the Great Buddha pagoda, which was hiding the evening before.

Then Tosho-gu shrine, where the first Tokugawa shogun, Ieyasu, was buried before they moved him to posher digs in Nikko (we went there Day 5).
Meiji Shrine
Clearly built in a more modern era. Giant tree trunk Toris. Wide white gravel roads to facilitate the flow and pulse of the Japanese people as they visit their Emperor's shrine.
t was raining. I felt good. I must admit to humming Singing in the Rain. Splashed puddles a moral imperative.
On the way to the Meiji temple, I saw a group of three people trading places while they took each other's picture. I walked a bit, pondered, turned around and offered to take their pictures.
IWe talked a bit. I admitted to my California-ness. The mother responded by saying, "Hables Espagnol?"
To which I responded, "Pequito. Je parle plus de francais." We finished the conversation in English. Since, I really do only speak a little Spanish and no Japanese.

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