Well, really the neighborhood next to the Kappabashi neighborhood, Asakusa. That didn't really make much sense. In any case, after visiting Kappabashi, Mondo and I went to Asakusa and visited Hanayashiki, which, as you can see in the picture, is the oldest amusement park in Japan! (if you count the fact that it opened in 1853 as a flower park.) It does have the oldest, continuously operating roller coaster in Japan, which you can see me riding in the second picture. You can also see that many of the other riders were children--not a very scary coaster, but fun from a roller coaster history point of view! Mondo didn't go on the roller coaster (not so creatively named "ro-ra-ko-suta-") because he wanted to take pictures of my coaster adventure (absolutely NOT because he is scared of roller coasters! Hmm.... uh.... well... ) (By the way, Mondo, you took a great picture!)
God blessed us with a coupon for free entrance tickets (good that day only) that was being passed out close to the train station which was great, because otherwise we would have had to pay about $7.00
each just to get into the park so I could ride one roller coaster. (Thank you!)Randy and Diane, you can see the hotel where we stayed in the background of the third picture.
More later . . .
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