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Hello, travelers. This is  Kumi .   Picturesque Japan  Blog welcomes you to Tokyo. We started our tour from  Hama Rikyu . https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3025.html Admission: 300 yen The tea house here is lovely. We enjoyed matcha (powdered green tea) and small cakes. The contrast between the traditional garden and modern buildings is spectacular! From Hama Rikyu, we took a sightseeing boat to Odaiba (via Hinode Pier). TOKYO CRUISE http://www.suijobus.co.jp/en/ From Hama Rikyu to Hinode: 210 yen From Hinode to Odaiba: 480 yen It was really a fun cruise. :) Now we are in Odaiba . https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3008.html Shopping at Daiba 1-chome Shotengai . https://www.odaiba-decks.com/en/daiba1chome/ So many cheap and funny items!!! Pudding!?? They can't stop shopping. LOL And become cats. LOL  This is the first bullet train (toy) which started operation in 1964. Even if you don't know this e...

Hello, travelers. This is  Kumi .   Picturesque Japan  Blog welcomes you to Tokyo. We started our tour from Hama Rikyu . https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3025.html Admission: 300 yen You can enter the tea house and enjoy matcha (green tea). To enter the tea house, we need to take off our shoes. She seemed really impressed with these old-fashioned shoe boxes. This is the tea and the cake we can get here (I forgot to take the photo, so this is from the other day). :P He is really passionate about photography, so we talked a lot about it during the tour. To your surprise, the water here is actually sea water! They regulate the water level by this old weir. From Hama Rikyu, we took a sightseeing boat to Asakusa. We saw many old and new bridges. It was like a museum of bridges. TOKYO CRUISE http://www.suijobus.co.jp/en/ From Hama Rikyu to Asakusa: 740 yen Here we are! Arrived in Asakusa ! https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3004...

Hello, travelers. This is  Kumi .   Picturesque Japan  Blog welcomes you to Hamarikyu Gardens and Odaiba. My full-day Tokyo tour usually includes Asakusa, but Asakusa would be jam-packed on New Year days, so we decided to visit Hamarikyu Gardens, Odaiba, and a museum. On our way to Hamarikyu Gardens, we stopped by a small shrine where there were only a few other visitors. Hibiya Shrine http://tokyo-re-discovery.com/article/194 We washed hands at the purification fountain before making a wish at the shrine. Yup. You're doing right. Nice posture. :) This is a 300-year-old pine tree at Hamarikyu Gardens . https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3025.html It's not autumn, but there were some colored leaves. So many people were waiting for the annual falcon show held on January 2 and 3. Lengthy greetings went on and on... Hmm... okay. We saw the falcons flying around. Let's move on! FYI: I found the falcon show's YouTube video...