It’s time to pull out my Tokyo Map -the sun is out!
After almost two weeks of rainy, cool and cloudy weather the sun has finally come out and it feels like spring - yeah! I have been a little under the weather lately and haven’t kept my promise of checking out a new site each week lately so it’s time to pull out my map of Tokyo and figure out what I’m going to do this weekend…
I could go to the Sanja Matsuri Festival in Asakusa this weekend but about 1.5 million other people will be doing the same thing and I’m not so sure that I want to deal with the crowds? I think that I can catch similar festivities on a much smaller scale a little later in the summer.
Instead, I think that I’ll head for Kagurazaka, or Iidabashi, with my camera to do some urban exploring. I hear that the area is a great mix of old and new and used to be home to a lot of Geisha houses. Kagurazaka-dori is a hilly areas with a modern main street that is in contrast to the many cobblestone alleys and old fashioned shops that can be found if you take the time to wander around. Now that sounds like a better way to spend the day, don’t you think? So if the sun is out I think that’s where I’ll be tomorrow…
Photo Credit: Flickr, Kagurazaka #001
