Ueno Park Japan

 One place we really enjoyed was Ueno park which is north of downtown Tokyo.  We did a paddle boat out on lake in the park.  There's video at the bottom of the post of the boat.

 Here's Angela with her umbrella that Brian bought her that is a sun umbrella besides just one to protect you from the rain (Brian spent quite some time finding just the right one that she'd like).  It's strange that you don't see more sun umbrellas used in the US and elsewhere.

 Ueno park has a Buddhist temple (below) and also a couple Shinto shrines (Shinto is another popular religion in Japan).

 Also on the temple grounds was this interesting memorial to the nuclear bomb tragedies of 1945.  It was interesting to see this and read the plaque.  Such a tough story in history.

 Those colorful things hanging at the memorial are all origami cranes (birds).  Here's a more closeup photo of them.

Here's some video of our paddle boat ride we enjoyed.

Here is video of a street performance we really enjoyed watching.  These drummers were very lively and kept their performance interesting with humor and cool rhythms.