Anticipating a hangover and getting up late on new years day we didn’t plan much.

We woke minus the hangover but the lie in was very much appreciated and decided to spend the day at Ueno park.

There were many people doing the same as us and taking a news years stroll around the park but the winter scenery was fairly bleak. Ueno park is renowned for having over 1000 cherry blossom trees. During the cherry blossom season it is one of Japan’s most popular and crowded places for having cherry blossom viewing parties called hanami.

Uneo park also has many museums, including: the Tokyo National Museum, the Orient Museum, the National Science Museum, the Shitamachi Museum, the National Museum for Western Art and the Tokyo Metropolitan Fine Art Gallery. It is also home to Japan’s first zoo, which has some Giant Pandas that were given to it by China on the normalisation of diplomatic relations in 1972.

But because we visited on New Years day everything was closed.

Once we’d got board of him we went and made our own entertainment! (This may take a while to download)

* Posted by j150vsc on 16/02/2007.