Three weeks since my last post?! How did that happen!?
Continuing from last time, next door to the Ginza district is Hibiya Park. It's a western style park that was built about 100 years ago. It reminded me a bit of Central Park in New York City, partly because of its style, and partly just because it's a beautiful green space in the middle of a huge urban area with skyscrapers.
The large wall next to the water is part of the original structure of the castle that used to stand on this site. If you look in the middle of the picture, you can see a tree that's growing right out of the wall, which I thought was pretty amazing.
As I probably mentioned before, some of Tokyo's parks have a large wild cat population. I saw a beautiful calico cat walking around and took some pictures. I saw her getting rather close to a crane (or maybe heron?) in the water, and wondered at first if there might be some kind of dramatic encounter. But, as you can see from the pictures, they basically ignored each other, and the cat went on her way. (Sorry-one of the pictures is kind of blurry.)
Later in the evening, I met Mondo, and we had dinner, and then returned to Ueno Park. Cherry blossom viewing continues into the night in many places ("yozakura"-night cherry blossoms), and Ueno Park is especially famous for that. I took several pictures, but they just didn't turn out that well. Instead, check out the links to videos at YouTube; one is yozakura, and the other is walking through the park during the day. The one at night is pretty dark, but might give you a little bit of an idea of what it's like:
Yozakura video
Daytime Sakura video
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