Tokyo - 26th & 27th August 2022

26th August

We arrived in Tokyo on the 26th, and stayed at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Muromachi, which had quite an impressive view, although it was still raining when we arrived, but soon cleared up.

The Tokyo Skytree in the distance was always helping to orient the view (it's the third highest structure in the world).

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At night, several of the buildings had an identical blue sign, it turned out these were all buildings in the same hotel chain.

That afternoon we visited a paper shop, which had lots of hand-made paper. Unfortunately they had a sign which said no photographs, which I hadn't seen until after I took this one of their more decorative papers, hopefully just taking the edges of the papers wasn't too bad!

27th August

The plan for the first full day in Tokyo was to get up early and go see the fish market over near the docks, sadly it appears we needed to get up a lot earlier to see the actual fish, so all we got to see was a large empty warehouse and some crates.

On the way (via the raised Yurikamome sightseeing train - it looks like a monorail, but is actually more like a guided bus) was this large building shaped like a ship - the Tokyo Museum of Maritime Science.