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Esimese asjana tuli minna Shinyukusse, et eile nägemata jäänud aed ära näha! 

Tasuta sissepääs - jeee!

Ja ohsa püha püss. Nii ilus ja hea ja maagiline!

Tiigiksed ja kivid ja väikesed templid-asjad ja puud ja lilled ja erinevad aiad. Prantsuse roosiaed ja Inglise park ja Jaapani aed.

Ma ei oska seda heaolu tunnet kirjeldada. 

Jalutades metroo poole sattusin ühte hiiglaslikku kunstipoodi, kus muidugi pidi aega veetma.. (Mitte et ma kunsti teeks kunagi....)

Siis Harajuku, sest noh, põnev - onju?! Ei olnud.

Ma ei tea, kas ajastus oli kehv või ma ei leidnud neid õigeid ja põnevaid tänavaid, mida uurida, aga kõik, mis ma nägin olid need samad suurlinna fancyd poed, mida leiab ükskõik millises suurlinnas.. Bleh..

Läksin pettunult Tokyo Keisrilossi poole, ahastusega, et ilmselt juba kohe ka suletakse..

Ja nii oli.. Aga ega ta väga tore ka polnud, vähemalt pärsst gyoeni aeda.. Kui ma oleks keiser, siis ma oleks küll nats pettunud..

Aga terve päeva imetlesin seda vana ja uue kokkupõrget ja looduse ja tehisliku ja suure ja väikese. Muudkui põrkavad siin..

Imeilusate suurte puude tagant pargis paistavad pilvelõhkujad.

Vana keisripalee osade taustaks on taas klaasist ja tsemendist kõrghooned.

Naljakas.

Ja ikka otsin neid õigeid mustreid, mida ma nagu ei suuda tabada neis kõrgeis..

Ja siis Tokyo station. Köögitänav (küll om raske kui ei söö kalalisi) ja multikapoe tänav. Rahakott sai kergemaks.

Varajane õhtu.

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First spot of the day was obviously the Gyoeni Gardens that I missed yesterday.

And they had free entry day - woop!

And it was magical!

Little ponds and bonsai trees and other trees, and different gardens - French rose garden and English park landscaping (that was a bit boring, but hey..) and a Japanese garden. And tall trees, and so much "komorebi" (which is my favourite Japanese word btw)

I van't do the garden justice with my words, you'd have to be a poet or something.

Next stop - Harajuku, because it's meant to be, you know, really hip and exciting. It wasn't. I mean, I probably felt the time constraints and didn't take the right turnings onto the right streets but all I could see were wellknown shops you can find in anyother big city in the world.

Anyways, a bit dissappointed I rushed towards the Tokyo Imperial Palace and its gardens, thinking that they'll probably be closing soon (I'm learning from my mistakes and all such) and they were.

But no worries, it wasn't great either, well at least after Gyoen's garden in the morning.. If I were the emporer I would tell the landscape artist's off.

But, what I've found interesting, and it kept coming up today was the juxtaposition of old and new, natural and manmade, small and tall.

Like how there are big great lovely trees in the park and in the background you have skyscrapers.

Or the background for the old imperial palace buildings is more giants of the glass and concrete type.

Weird. Interesting.

And I'm still chasing the patterns in tall buildinsg that I know exist and I just don't seem to be able to capture..

Final stop was Tokyo station. Foodstreet (it's really hard not liking seafood.. Suddenly, there are no options) and some cartoon character shops. My wallet definitely felt lighter by the end of today.

But - early night (ish)