
On the way to Shinjuku Gyoen. Car-free area. August 23, 2009. Tokyo.
After visiting Meiji Jingu, we returned to the Shinjuku station to go to Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. And we dropped in a camara store to buy my camera lense cap. In fact I'd used my camera without any cap almost for one year after losing it, and we already knew that the Japanese camera stores sell their stuff much cheaper than Korean's stores. We wasn't wrong and could buy the cap just for 370 yen. It was about three times cheaper than to buy in Korea.

The route from Harajuku station to Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building.
About 30 minutes later, we could arrive at the Shinjuku gate of Shinjuku Goyen. The guide map said it's just 10-minute walk from Shinjuku station south exit to Shinjuku gate of the garden, but we got lost and wandered for a while especially when we came out of the Shinjuku station. It's really big station! We couldn't even remember how many times we asked people the way to the south exit. Anyway, we managed to arrive the gate of Shinjuku Gyoen. But oh my, the garden was already closed. Shinjuku Gyoen's operation hours were 9:00 ~ 16:00. We had to return to our hotel since we walked all day and were tired out. And, That was by no means the end of the matter. We got lost around Shinjuku station, too! We turned round and round confusedly a few times, and about fifty minutes later we could arrive at our hotel.
![]() We wandered around the station | ![]() until after it gets dark. August 23, 2009. |
We went out for dinner about at 19:30. We went in the direction of Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, not Shinjuku station, and there is hardly any restaurants. At last we had to go to Macdonald, and returned to the hotel.
We had no plan to go to the observatory of Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building at first. We thought we are too tired. But we knew well that we might not have any time to go there if we miss today night, and the government building was so close that we seemed to be considered lazy if we don't go there. So about at 22:00, we put on our shoes and go to the observatory of that building.

View from Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. August 23, 2009.
We were half in doubt about business hours of the observatory, but it was still open until then. It's second time to see the night view of Tokyo from here, but it was inspiring to me as ever. We looked around the shop of the observatory to choose presents, and returned to the hotel. It was about 23:00.




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