Open but more scaffolding.....

We are exhausted and didn't know our feet could hurt this much,.

Actually managed to get up at 5.30am to get to the fish market. I have decided the only place that Tokyo people sleep is on the train - they never stop, at 5.30 this morning the train was packed........on a Saturday.......madness.Still, we joined them as you do and headed off to the fish market. Missed the tuna auction by 15mins but to be honest the place was so busy and I was so sleepy I would probably have ended up accidentally buying 25 tuna or something.......
The fish market was fascinating, smelly but fascinating and even baby tuna are huge. Martyn wants a large bandsaw for chopping up his frozen fish with. I think I'll be needing 50 freezers to cope with one fish!
I have no idea what forms of sea life I saw, I definately prefer them living though.....maybe it was just the very early hour.............waited until afterwards for breakfast which was certainly the best plan!

Then we went to the IMperial Palace gardens - open this time yahay. Very pretty and a fair bit of cherry blossom. Sky was very grey though so not at all what I had booked. It also got a bit chilly so to keep warm we wandered to the Sony Building - 8 floors of Sony specific gadgets. 3d telly put Avatar to shame (don't tell James Cameron!). Again Martyn managed not to spend anything, I think he might be ill........
And then, guess what - the sun came out - hurrah so we tootled off to this little park I'd read about which was supposedly very pretty and it was. Admiteddly we got the picnic blanket out and had a (very) small nap in the sun but we had got up very early!
We tried to get a water taxi back but they were fully booked so it was back on the train to Ueno park where we had started when we first arrived. We managed to find the temple we had missed first time roudn and guess what - you got it - shrouded in scaffolding and being renovated. Still we had best meal yet from a couple of food stalls selling things to the Hanami party goers. Chicken on skewers, a sort of bubble and squeek omelette and an icecream. Doesn't sound like much when I put it like that but its amazing what liberal coatings of soy sauce will do. Honestly it was yummy..........

Tomorrow we are going to try for a bullet train to Nagoya - exciting........may go quiet for a bit , not sure about internet access etc.