Sunday, May 16, 2010

Ueno Zoo

A day at the zoo is always nice.
Since we have but a few remaining destinations to visit, we have the choice for the time left here. Ueno is a place where you can do just about everything. There are museums, parks, shops, restaurants and a zoo. We figured visiting the zoo might be swell so we went there for the day. The zoo isn't too pricey, it's only 600 yen for the entrance.
But since Ueno is a big city (located somewhere between Asakusa and Jimbocho) we had to find it first.







But once we got there, we could finally envoy the main dish (the zoo):

(since I took a lot of pictures in the zoo and since it's not directly related to the theme of being in Japan, I made a winrar-compressed file if you want to see the pictures and videos. It's pretty much all of the day's worth so there is nothing else besides the zoo. The blog can't upload winrar files so ask it from me if you want a peek at it)

Of all the animals available in the zoo, we only missed 2: the tigers and the gorillas.
All others were withstood (note that I couldn't take pictures and videos of ALL of 'em because some were out of camera-range or half-hidden or in dark places).

Then, when the zoo closed, we went back to the station.





Then we went back to Jimbocho to have dinner.

That's it for today.
See you.