This morning we were headed to TeamLab Borderless at the Mori Building, it was going to be 46 minutes on a train and I just didn’t want to
start the day stuffy on the train, it is hot and hotter underground. So we got a cab, hotel called it, took 15
minutes to come. Very nice car and very clean. Cost 6900Y, a LOT for a 15 minute
car ride! But it was nice to not arrive flustered!
I am so happy we missioned out here. This was such a beautiful experience. The art put me right in my happy place, I could have spent hours just being still in those rooms. The athletic garden was amazing for the kids, lots of opportunities to move with the art, to jump, climb, slide, draw, so much to do! We spent around 1.5h there, if child free would have been another hour or two. Highly recommend.
Train to Harajuku
We made a beeline to Eiselwelt gelato to get some cute ice
creams, much needed on a warm, sunny day! Messy though! We walked up and down
Takeshita st, got our Totti fairy floss/candy floss, a few cute things. Loved
this area. Walked through Omotesando, down through Shibuya, and back to Genki
sushi for dinner. No wait, delicious sushi and more shopping.
I find the journeying in Japan to be annoying. I love a
destination that you can walk everywhere (think Hawaii, Vegas, Disney Anaheim)
or journeys are easy (think New York, London), this is neither. It’s a very
efficient system but it’s a struggle to find the right entrance for the right
spot and then the long indirect journeys made wanting to go places feel like a
bit of a downer.
It’s rude to eat on trains here, or to eat at the station,
or walking, but there are no park benches (or bins for that matter) so we were
always starving, trying to find the right place to eat when we didn’t have to
be somewhere, most of the rules here I love, but this was the bane of snack and
lunch time.
The people on trains were amazing, we loved how politely
people line up for the trains, and once on, people kept offering us seats to
stay as a group (if there was a seat to go to). It was very kind, I have never
seen this anywhere else in the world.
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