On our last morning in Tokyo we traveled to the Imperial Palace. Since the Emperor of Japan and his family really live here, I knew that we would not be able to tour the palace. However, my guidebook assured me that the East Gardens would be open on a Tuesday. Unfortunately, Matt and I could not find any entrance without a gate and a gate guard that was checking the paperwork of everyone, so we could only admire the moat and the guard house and the little bit of palace we could observe from behind the fence.
The surrounding area was full of shiny skyscrapers filled with people in business suits. We ate an a little sandwich shop that took us almost half an hour to find as we tried to follow signs in a huge office building. We nabbed the last table in the cafe filled with salarymen before we had to leave for the airport. While we only spent two nights in Tokyo during this short vacation, we have already made plans to return in summer 2015 during the climbing season for Mt. Fuji.
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| On the other side of the fence from the famous Seimon Ishibashi bridge. |
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| All the skyscrapers in this upscale part of Tokyo. |
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| The statue of Kusunoki Masashige, a samurai. |
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