Leaving Tokyo

It's been a fun few days in Tokyo so far. Mostly I've been seeing places that I've been to before, but there have been new discoveries to be sure. Such being the festival at Asakusa yesterday! It was called Hozuki matsuri, I believe, hozuki meaning 'ground cherry' which resemble small orange paper lanterns to me. I didn't take pictures that day because there were so many people! There was so much going on too, I walked down and around down some of the side streets a bit before I got some dango and left.

As the day progressed, however, I realized another important fact when one is walking around Tokyo in mid-summer. Always carry an umbrella! The rain came down just as I arrived in Akihabara, and the streets were lined with girls in maid-like outfits handing out fliers and tissues as usual, umbrellas in hand. Smart girls. The ginko trees which line Tokyo streets are rather good though at rain protection. However their radius is not very big, and I knew that I was going to end up soaked through one way or another. So after a short stop at a guruguru zushi restaurant for some supper I high-tailed it back to the station to head home to Shinagawa, where I marched through the downpour to my hostel. Very refreshing, I must say.

And soon! I will be off to internship land! Provided I can survive on public transportation with my beast of a pack. I do hope that long distance buses have storage space.
Here's one of my favorite of the small amount of pics I took this past week!

Ravens! (In Japanese: カラス kah-rah-su). This park that I would walk through to get to the station was filled with them. Always chattering away.
Anyways, I'm off!

Take care,
~Kira