24 Dec. 飛香港轉機
感覺機塲的人潮有減
名牌商店的職員多過客人
很想問問當地人的影嚮
Merry Christmas from Tokyo
25 Dec. Shiba Park Christmas market. Tokyo Tower in the background.
Rainbow Bridge at Odaiba
Tokyo Skytree
26 Dec. 211 days to 2020 Olympic games
Up there
The background of this picture, Steve said it's 'gold poop'.
Kaminarimon
Outside of the beautiful Sensoji temple.
Steve bought a souvenir
27 Dec. We went to line up for a free guided 1 hour tour
Check point at Imperial Palace
I bought a souvenir from the gift shop where it's inside of Imperial Palace
This is the place where the emperor and family having New Year wishes from people
'👓 Glasses' image of the bridge when we having the tour of inside view
Meiji Shrine
Tokyo Tower, we didn't go up.
Tsukji Honganji Buddhist Temple
Tsukji Fish Market
28 Dec. We took train to Kamakura, Tsurugaoka Hachimangu 鶴岡八幡宮
The Great Buddha Kamakura
長谷(觀音)寺 Hasedera temple
十一面觀音 This statue in their museum
In the cave
29 Dec. We took Tobu limited express train, about 2 hours to Nikko (日光), and 1 day pass of bus there.
大猷院 Taiyuin Futarasan jinja mae
Centries-old Nikko Tosho-gu shrine 東照寺
The inner shrine and tomb
Then we took bus up to Chuzenji, Kegon Falls.
零度啊…太冷了，看到熱湯食.. 來一碗
It's around 0 C, very cold.
Getting dark when around 4:30pm there, we didn't manage to view the Chuzenji lake.
A day Nikko trip was not enough to see much, oh well.
30 Dec. We booked a tour to Mt. Fuji & Lake Kawaguchi
Today was raining lightly and cloudy.
First stop was Oishi Park to view lake Kawaguchi & Mt. Fuji, but we couldn't see Mt. Fuji at all.
Then we went up at Mt. Fuji panoramic ropeway. We couldn't see Mt. Fuji either.
Steve bought cookie, I bought fruit.
Buffet lunch
Because it had been snowing the previous two days, so the bus could only go to Mt. Fuji First Step 1,291m instead of all the way to Fifth station.
Someone made these snowman.
Then the tour last stop was village Oshino Hakkai..Mt. Fuji still hidden by cloud when we arrived there.
The guide said we could drink the water, we did.
5 mins before we had to leave, some of the lower cloud started to clear away..
Whew.. at least we saw part of Mt. Fuji.
The bus drop us at Tokyo station, we walked to Tokyo Midtown.
31 Dec. We went to Kaminarimon, Sensoji (temple) again, and other temple and shrine around there.
Then we went to Ueno area...
National Museum of Nature and Science, other museums, and zoo are closed.
上野東照宮 Ueno Toshogu (temple)
舊寬永寺重塔 Five-story Pagoda of Former Kaneiji
Ueno 藥師如來
Ueno 上野大佛
Gojo-tenijin Shrine
弁天堂 Bentendo Temple
New Year's Eve in Oji, Fox Pageant - Shozoku Inari will start the fox parade at midnight..
Shozoku Inari
The fox parade will arrive Oji Inari Jinja (shrine), and having performance at Kaguraden stage to celebrate New Year.
It was cold and windy, we didn't wait to see the ceremony.
Shinjuku
The last day of 2019, we found that we couldn't count down and see firework in Tokyo.
Happy 2020 吉祥
We had a little time to visit Yoyogi Park before our flight back home.
