Japan - Tokyo - Day 2b

We think today is our last day in Tokyo with good weather (we had a very faint view of Mt Fuji from the hotel). With Typhoon Mawar in the area, we expect rain for the rest of the time we are here. So, we made sure we were out and about today. We first headed to one of the best Japanese gadget stores. It is called Hands and there are many stores, but we headed to one of the larger ones. It is six floors (although, each floor seemed to have at least an A and B level, so let’s just say 12 floors. Each floor had a theme. The themes range from pets, to hardware, to crafts, to kitchenware, to umbrellas, to travel bags, to office supplies, to laundry supplies, to you name it! Of course, I managed to find a little something, but we didn’t go crazy. After the miles we walked in the store, we were in need of a rest and some liquid refreshment. We managed to find one of the few cafes with outdoor seating (on the second level) to have a beer! That reinvigorated us to head to the Tokyo National Museum. This is actually a nice sized museum on two floors with interesting historical artifacts to reflect Japan’s evolution over the centuries. After that, we headed back to the hotel with just enough time for Nan to beat me at cribbage before our dinner reservations to wind up the evening…

Tokyo National Museum:

Tokyo Station (one of the main train stations in Tokyo):