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Saturday, August 20, 2016

Day 22 of Overseas Trip 2016

I left Yokohama in the early morning. Therefore, I should expect heavy crowd in the normal train when I reached Tokyo area.

It did happen. Somehow, I did not bother Japanese workers.

After careful locating the host's home at Otsuka area for 30 minutes, I managed to leave my backpack there. I have no problem travelling to Ueno station.

Rather than transferring to non-JR train, I choose to walk from Ueno station to Todai.

I am very curious on how Todai looks like.

It took me 1 hour to locate Todai. I first found Akamon gate, iconic area of Todai.

Some Japanese did bother taking picture of it before walking.

Getting inside Todai is relatively easy as no one is stopping you. It is about 10 minutes to locate Sanshiro pond from Akamon gate.

Yasuda Auditorium is about 15 minutes away from Sanshiro pond. Apparently it is a popular spot in Love Hina manga and anime.

Walking back to Ueno station, there are many museums nearby Ueno station. I did not buy admission ticket because I had enough of it for given wonderful tour in similar museum at Washington, D.C.

I return to host home so that I took a afternoon nap. Being refreshed, I went to Ueno station again.

I am walking towards Asakusa area.

I went to see Senso-ji. It is very popular place. Very crowded in the afternoon.

It is about 10 minutes walk from Senso-ji. Very gold plated windows all over in that building. Apparently, it is Asahi building.

I walk and walk through poor-looking area towards Skytree tower. It took me around 1 hour from Senso-ji.

The admission ticket for Skytree tower is quite costly. The route to buy at the counter is quite confusing. It was good thing to have many employees to guide us which counter we should go to.

There is another plus. At the initial counter, you are allowed to buy admission ticket to Tembo Deck. I was told that you can buy admission ticket to Tembo Galleria at Tembo Deck. It is great way to think carefully. Seeing cloudy thing, I was able to save the cost of Tembo Galleria admission by not buying one.

I took 1 hours to take aerial pictures of Tokyo in different sky shades. Tokyo is truly beautiful city.

After that, I went to Sumida area to have ramen. I waited for 1 hour for my turn to make an order and 10 minutes to get a seat. It is worthwhile wait.

End of Day 22

Books

Title: Hidden Champions of the 21st Century: Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders
Author: Hermann Simon
Rating: 7/10
Remark: It is heavy read but there are many interesting facts about hidden champions.

Title: The Ten Commandments for Business Failure
Author: Donald R. Keough
Rating: 10/10
Remark: It is very easy to read all pages. The contents are very interesting and relevant.

Tony Del Piero wrote and posted at at 2:58 pm