Day 8, Tokyo: Hammamatsucho's Hama-Rikyu Garden, Korean lunch, Harajuku

Here's a map:

H top right = home. South to a beautiful park in Hammamatsucho, on further clockwise on the Yamanote Line to Shinokubo for a Korean lunch, three stops back for a brief stop in Harajuku, then run away quickly home.

In the middle of Tokyo business, this beautiful garden dates from the 1650s when it was initially a seaside duck hunting preserve for the Shogun's family, later a palace built there.

The imperial family gave the garden with most of its palace and other buildings destroyed, to the city of Tokyo in late 1945. More information here. More lively account here.

And my movie here

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We went on to lunch in Shinokubo, known as Korea Town. Well worthwhile. 

In a street parallel to the Yamanote Line, we found a musical focus...

and ate well, here

opposite this

Then we all jumped on the train to drop in to Harajuku

...where we spent a moment in crowded commercial Takeshitadori

the appeal of which seems to be spending money, mainly by the young

 and then ran away exhausted

new movies

I've made four more movies, will have to attend to writing later.

Assembling movies not too hard, though there are some silly things done by Apple, in shifting iMovie down to app form. Why necessary for all photos to have the 'Ken Burns effect' - shifting around in a seasick manner? Let me choose, please. Also, someone in the design department thought it would be nice if captions had a bell ring every time a caption starts or ends... 

Anyway, here they are...

1 Riding the Shinkansen, with glimpses of Mt Fuji

2: The Philosopher's Walk, Kyoto

3: Some unexpected musical entertainments

4: The amazing Kyoto Station