The weather seems far from what we expect of autumn - sunny and 24 deg C.
About 5 hours of walking and God knows how many steps leaves us completely knackered!
It's better to travel than arrive ... then again ...
Nov 1, 2009
Chrysanthemum Me!
A little ride on the Yamanote people moving iron horse brought us to Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. This is, more or less, in the centre of Tokyo and is one of the largest gardens. It was the first day of the chrysanthemum show. I never saw such huge displays of huge flowers. Some sort of sculptured intomulti-bloom thingies; one plant and hundreds of flowers in a sort of wire corset. One display was of hundreds of perfect huge individual blooms. Stunning as you would expect just because its Japan.