Our schedules are quite elaborate and we spend most days booked with activities and scheduled arrangements. Today we were able to spend most of the day as we pleased. This gives everyone in the group of individual students some time to do some of the things they really want to do. We had the morning and afternoon up until 5pm when we had an arranged dinner with the MSU Alumni Club of Japan.
How I spent my free day:
-Hamarikyu Gardens
-Tokyo Tower
-Senso-ji Temple
The Hamarikyu Gardens
This was a very peaceful place. These gardens were the old imperial gardens, before the emperor had changed gardens into where the imperial palace is located today. I really enjoyed this place and I left with a feeling of stillness. Something about leaving this place made me more aware of the peace and quite. Heading back into the city of Tokyo I mentioned to my friends, "If I had to work in Tokyo, I would find a way to eat lunch here everyday to get out of the city."
Tokyo Tower
Fun Fun Fun 250m up in the sky. This mimic of the Eiffel Tower is a tourist hot spot. Very impressive, however there is a new tower in the sky and maybe tomorrow evening I will make my way over to Skytree tower, which is only a few years old.
Senso-ji Temple
What a place! This is a culture center for Tokyo. Japan has many cultural places (temples, shrines, monuments, ect.) but this place is one of the culture hot spots for Tokyo city. We happened to be here on a weekend of a festival. There were groups of people, almost like teams, who all wore a similar outfit and had these wooden temple pieces that they would place over there shoulders to lift up. Mobs upon mobs of people were following the symbols for each particular team or group. It was very cool, and an experience I will always remember.
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