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Better late than never, right? A few photos from my trip to Tokyo during Silver Week.

We took the Shinkansen (bullet train) on the way up to Tokyo. Expensive but nice and fast! We left Shin-Osaka station at 9:20 and arrived in Tokyo just before 12.

Also saw Mt Fuji from the window, though the weather was a bit cloudy so it wasn’t the best view.

When we arrived we first went to the hostel where we’d booked a room, but it turned out to be a dirty and rather scary place. It had been the only place where we could find an empty room, because of the long weekend, so we were a little bit worried. But luckily Laura’s Japanese friend saved us by ringing around a lot of hotels and managing to find us a place :)

Gotanda (not a tourist spot, but this is where our hotel was):

Intersection outside Shibuya station, as seen from the second floor of Starbucks:

And then us in the middle of it:

Tokyo at night:

Why does everything need an aquarium attached? Jellyfish up in the sky:

Harajuku:

Asakusa:

Ueno zoo was actually a bit depressing. It’s an old style zoo with all the animals in cages that really aren’t big enough.

Akihabara:

Tokyo Tower:

We didn’t want to pay as much for our return fares, so we took an overnight bus. It was actually okay! I was able to sleep a little, which I hadn’t expected, though that didn’t stop me from sleeping most of the next day as well!

I’ll try and come back and write more later about what we did in these places :)