Tokyo Imperial Palace & Kitanomaru Park • 4 comments • In the middle of Tokyo sits the residence of the Japanese Emperor, the Imperial Palace. In practice, it’s just a large park surrounded by a moat with no "palace" to see (in the sense of one specific building), but a collection of lakes, gardens, bridges, and nicely curated walking paths. It’s pretty much the exact opposite experience of visiting Shibuya crossing, so it provided a nice balance to the activities of the previous days. ...and photos from the same spot in 2008! :) ****
Tokyo Disney Sea At Night • 2 comments • I just posted about our long day at Tokyo Disney Sea, here's part two: After watching a beautiful sunset over Agrabah, we walked over to watch the main attraction, Fantasmic!, with boats, lasers, lights, and fire parading around the eponymous Sea while all our favourite Disney tunes played in Japanese... super kawaii. There's a Sinbad ride (similar to the 'It's A Small World' animatronic ride in California) that I think is really creepy and adorable at the same time. I posted some videos in my instagram stories if you're curious to see. We ended the day with a romantic-ish gondola ride with a group of tourists and Japanese men dressed as gondoliers. It was beautiful and we were happy to be off of our feet. - Mina
