Day 65 4 October Tokyo

Today we left the ship that has been home for us for the last three weeks. We had a great time and today we have a tour of the city that will take us through to 5.00 pm.

Here is the Fuji building which has a very unusual design. Only spoilt by the raindrops on the windows. Japanese tourist buses are the cleanest we have ever encountered. When we got back on the bus at a stop later in the day, the driver had cleaned all the windows and the raindrops were gone.

This is the Meiji Shrine, built in 1920 to commemorate Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. It is surrounded by a forest of 100,000 donated trees.

The Ministry of Justice that was rebuilt after being destroyed in World War II.

We were off to lunch, and we saw a wedding party. Here is the bride. It wasn't their actual wedding day, just the day of the photographs.

We had lunch at a very elegant events venue. This is what we had for lunch. It was the most colourful meal either of us had ever had.

There was an artificial lake in the grounds of the venue.

These fish were huge!

Their bonsai garden came with its own security guard.

This bonsai is reputed to be 530 years old, according to "Best Used by Date".

We did go again to the Imperial Palace Plaza. We did witness the changing of the guard.

I am glad we are not on that bus.

Our last stop of the day was the Asakusa Kannon Temple. It was very crowded indeed.

The smoke is for purification.

There were lots of young women dressed in Kimonas having photoshoots. 

The Aashi Brewery building and whatever the heck that is ...

This a fashion shop for people but they also sell fashions for dogs.

The view from our hotel room on the 20th floor. The Japanese parliament, the Diet is in the background. They replaced their Prime Minister four days ago.

Our room in Tokyo Five-star hotel.

The Diet, reminiscent of the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance.

For dinner we walked to McDonalds about 800 metres away but because we had to backtrack to cross a very busy road, it took a little longer, as we also went up not the most ideal street. In the back streets there were lots of eateries, not all with customers. The Mexican restaurant seemed to be very popular.