While we have been wandering around Tokyo Patsy spent hours in the emergency department and eventually was fitted with a temporary moon boot to secure her broken ankle. In the meantime on the home front the Gold Coast car races are on which can be heard clearly at our place. As well as that noise the dogs have been spooked by jets flying over so Patsy has to contend with that as well!
Generally Tokyo is incredibly clean, orderly and its citizens very polite. At the Ueno Park yesterday we saw about 100 men standing in two columns similar to a military formation. Some were obviously homeless and we eventually saw the christian food service apparently feeding them and later lecturing or preaching to them. We could not figure out why they had been formed into neat rows.
The Nakagin Capsule Tower built in 1972 has survived several threats to have it torn down. Each of the capsules is secured by only 4 bolts. The capsules are cantilevered off one of the two towers. Each capsule is fully self contained but most are in poor condition and used for storage these days. In contrast the 5 storey pagoda in Ueno Park was built in 1639 and continues to attract thousands of visitors.
Today we are catching the Shinkansen (bullet train) to Okayama
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