Lost Japan files series:
The zoo
My hometown has a zoo. While I think that it is more modern, in some ways than the Ueno Zoo, as far as size goes, it is, well it loses that one pretty handily.
I went to the Zoo on a weekday. It was in midmorning in January and most people were at work. On the way there, I saw school kids playing with kites.
The park was pretty cool. The weather was a little chilly, but it was January and compared to Montana it was great. The park has a number of interesting shrines in it as well as paved walking paths etc. There are also cats, but I didn’t get any pictures of those.
I did however get some of a small temple — left over from one that burnt down. And a small Inari shrine( thats the fox-ish god for you not down with the shinto folks).
The zoo was fun. It had pandas.
Also, praire dogs, no joke.
Afterwards I went to akiba. but thats for another day.