Tag: Asia

Some more pictures from my trip to the Rikugi-en gardens.

Some more photos from my trip to the Rikugi-en gardens in Tokyo.

I visited the Meija Shrine inner garden. It is a very large traditional Japanese garden in the heart of Tokyo.

I visited the Kakuun-Tei (tea house) in Tokyo. The original building was destroyed during World War 2. The current house is a reconstruction built in 1958.

It is common to see girls dressed in traditional Japanese dresses at the Meija shrine in Tokyo. These nice girls let myself and some Australians I met in the crowd take their photo.

View of the Tokyo Rainbow bridge. I took the photo from the Tokyo Tower.

Some more photos from my trip up the Tokyo Tower.

I watched a traditional Japanese lion dance thingy at the Rikugi-en gardens in Tokyo. The lions seem to enjoy biting the heads of small children who promptly started screaming. I assumed they would stop on realising the kids were petrified, but no, they just kept on pretending to bite the kids. Very strange.

I saw a massive swathe of people walking along a pathway in Tokyo, so I followed them. After a slow 30 min walk, I ended up at the Meija shrine. The interesting thing wasn’t the shrine itself, but the incredible behaviour of the crowd. Thousands of people all walked in beautiful unison along the path, with no pushing or attempts to cut in line. It was an incredible thing to see and a beautiful example of differences between Japanese culture and my own.