Japan 2012 - Day 2

Not much of a plan today, began to walk around Shinagawa and got as far as the Nikon offices before it started to rain.... and then pour.... so plan B was to run to the train station and take it from there. Ended up at Tokyo station and took it from there... drizzled on and off for most of the afternoon before the sun came out, so took the opportunity to walk around the imperial palace grounds and the government buildings area... aka Japan's center of power (although you weren't allowed to take pictures of many of the buildings, which had just enough policemen around to deter people from doing things.....

Anyway, managed to snag pictures of the Justice ministry, and the diet... walked past many other buildings including the Prime Minister's official residence before circling around the back side of the Diet, past the National Diet Library, up to the other side of the imperial palace grounds, detoured around Hibiya park, then back to a corner of the imperial palace grounds where there was a statue of Kusunogi Masashige, then finally back towards the Tokyo train station. By this time the sun had come out and there was a nice breeze as well.

Had to reload my suica card and stopped off for a bite to eat at Shinagawa station, a noodle joint where you order from a vending machine, had tanuki soba for 400 yen, and it was less than a minute before I actually got my food. After a long day of walking around it hit the spot. Then it was back to the hotel.

Pics!

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