{"id":276,"date":"2010-05-01T13:28:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T11:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japan.atlanteans.net\/?p=276"},"modified":"2010-05-01T13:28:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T11:28:40","slug":"day-3-jour-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/japan.atlanteans.net\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 \/ Jour 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lire en fran\u00e7ais<\/a><\/p>\n

After two days of being alone on myself or almost, today was an organized tour inside of Tokyo, which give me the opportunity to see some new things, as well as see again some other I had seen, and also to meet a few french speaking people for a little change.<\/p>\n

The first step of today’s trip was the Tokyo Tower, which was actually designed in the very beginning as a TV transmission tower, but has also two observatory, one at about 150m and the other, much higher, but we stayed at the middle one, getting to the higher one required special tickets, and also to wait for about an hour when we were here. It was an occasion to take some other shots of Tokyo from the top.<\/p>\n

After that we went to the Happo-en garden, where we had a tea ceremony, we then had a little time to walk in the garden itself, and we saw several couple getting married which is not surprising, our guide told us it was the second day of the year that is the most used for weddings. <\/p>\n

We continued to the Chinzan-so, where we once again went through quite a big garden with other couples, which I guess had just married that were there too. And we then ate at the Mokushundo restaurant where food was grilled just in front of us by the waitresses, that had put on us some nice apron. It was very good and I had a great time. <\/p>\n

After lunch we went straight to the Imperial Palace, where we went up to the main gate, which people can go through only twice a year to see the Emperor. The place is really huge and without any cars, once again like a strange place inside Tokyo where suddenly everything around seems distant, like being a little in another world.<\/p>\n

Then we went to the Hinode Pier where we take a boat for a forty minutes cruise on the Sumida river that would take us up to Ginza, there I’ve found myself like last year in front of the Temple, so I took a Mikuji, but this time it was not very good so I quickly attached it to the pole to get it canceled. After all of that it was already the end of the day, but as it was early and that the guide offered to drop those who would like in Ginza I took the chance to see a little more before going back to the Hotel.<\/p>\n

Ginza is a bit like the Champs-Elysee of Paris, with a big avenue, which is bordered by a very high number of shops for many famous brands, Chanel, Dior, Apple, and so on. But what made it a little different too is that on Saturdays and Sundays the avenue is closed to vehicles so instead of being everyone on each side of the street you were able to walk just anywhere you want, so it did not seemed so crowded in fact. And I had the luck to find one of the gift I wanted here so it was nice.<\/p>\n

Went I came back I took a walk at the same time through the Hotels garden which I’ve under my window and that are pretty nice. So that is it for today, tomorrow I’ll join my friend, so I’ll probably have less to post, and don’t know if I’ll take the time or not to do it, I can’t be a bad guest \ud83d\ude09 so in the worst case you should see no more posts until Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Apr\u00e8s deux jours enti\u00e8rement par moi-m\u00eame ou presque, aujourd’hui se d\u00e9roulait un tour organis\u00e9 d’une journ\u00e9e dans Tokyo, qui m’a donn\u00e9 l’opportunit\u00e9 de voir de nouvelles choses et aussi quelques anciennes mais aussi de discuter avec quelques francophones.<\/p>\n

La premi\u00e8re \u00e9tape de la journ\u00e9e fut la Tour de Tokyo, qui fut en fait con\u00e7ue comme une tour de transmission pour les TVs du Pays, mais dispose aussi de deux observatoires, l’un \u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s au milieu \u00e0 environ 150m, et le second bien plus haut, toutefois nous sommes rest\u00e9 qu’au premier \u00e9tage, aller plus haut n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 un ticket sp\u00e9cial et de la patience puisqu’il fallait compt\u00e9 \u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s une heure d’attente. Ce fut une nouvelle occasion de voir un peu plus Tokyo de haut.<\/p>\n

Nous avons ensuite \u00e9t\u00e9 aux jardins Happo-en, o\u00f9 nous avons assist\u00e9, et pris part pour \u00eatre pr\u00e9cis \u00e0 la c\u00e9r\u00e9monie du th\u00e9, nous avons ensuite pu nous promener un peu dans les jardins, o\u00f9 se trouvait aussi de nombreux couple se mariant ce qui n’est pas si surprenant d’apr\u00e8s notre guide puisqu’il s’agit du deuxi\u00e8me jours de l’ann\u00e9e le plus utilis\u00e9 pour les mariages. <\/p>\n

Apr\u00e8s cela nous nous sommes rendus \u00e0 l’h\u00f4tel Chizan-so, o\u00f9 nous avons commencer par un passage au travers des jardins, o\u00f9 se trouvait l\u00e0 encore plusieurs couples de mari\u00e9s, qui s’\u00e9tait tr\u00e8s probablement mari\u00e9 quelques instants plus t\u00f4t. Nous avons mang\u00e9 au restaurant Mokushundo o\u00f9 la nourriture fut grill\u00e9e et pr\u00e9par\u00e9e devant nos yeux par les serveurs qui nous ont toutefois d’abord \u00e9quip\u00e9s de jolis tablier. Le repas \u00e9tait tr\u00e8s bon et fut tr\u00e8s agr\u00e9able.<\/p>\n

Suite au d\u00e9jeuner, nous sommes parti voir le Palais Imp\u00e9rial, dont nous ne v\u00eemes qu’une petite partie, puisque celui-ci est la r\u00e9sidence de l’empereur, et que les portes ne sont ouvertes que deux fois par ans. Cette endroit est v\u00e9ritablement gigantesque sans rien aux alentours, et l\u00e0 encore c’est un de ces lieux dans Tokyo qui semble comme \u00eatre dans un autre monde.<\/p>\n

Le trajet suivant nous fit prendre un petit bateau de croisi\u00e8re sur la rivi\u00e8re Sumida, partant de Hinode Pier pour un trajet d’environ 40 minutes jusqu’\u00e0 Ginza., o\u00f9 je me suis retrouv\u00e9 devant le premier temple que j’avais vu l’an dernier, je n’ai donc pas h\u00e9sit\u00e9 \u00e0 tirer un mikuju, qui ne fut pas si bon cette fois et que j’ai donc tr\u00e8s rapidement attach\u00e9 pour conjurer la pr\u00e9diction. Apr\u00e8s cela c’\u00e9tait d\u00e9j\u00e0 la fin de la journ\u00e9e, mais comme il \u00e9tait encore t\u00f4t et que notre guide nous fit la proposition de d\u00e9poser ceux qui le souhaitez \u00e0 Ginza, je saisis l’opportunit\u00e9 de voir un autre quartier avant de rentrer \u00e0 l’h\u00f4tel par mes propres moyens.<\/p>\n

Ginza c’est un peu les Champs-Elys\u00e9es de Paris, avec une grande avenue, qui est entour\u00e9e d’un tr\u00e8s grand nombre de boutique de bon nombre de marques connues, Chanel, Dior, Apple, \u2026 Mais ce qui la rendait diff\u00e9rente et int\u00e9ressante est que cette avenue est ferm\u00e9e aux voitures les samedi et dimanche, du coup au lieu d’une foule compacte sur les trottoirs on se prom\u00e8ne tranquillement en plein milieu de cette avenue. Et par chance j’ai pu y trouv\u00e9 l’un des cadeaux que je voulais ramen\u00e9, donc un tr\u00e8s bon choix.<\/p>\n

Je suis ensuite revenu \u00e0 l’h\u00f4tel en passant cette fois-ci par les Jardins que j’ai sous ma fen\u00eatre, ce qui fut agr\u00e9able. Voila pour aujourd’hui, demain je rejoint mon amie, donc j’aurai sans doute beaucoup moins \u00e0 raconter et \u00e0 montrer, et je ne sais pas si je prendrai le temps de le faire ou non, je ne peux d\u00e9cemment pas \u00eatre un mauvais invit\u00e9. Donc dans le pire des cas il pourrait ne pas y avoir de message pendant quelques jours, jusque mercredi.<\/p>\n

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