Ueno Kouen, Taito-ku
Many museums and the zoo are located within Ueno Park, but Ueno Park itself is quite a nice place to spend the day. There are lots of places of interest for the children – the space in front of the huge fountain, the playground, live performers, the huge steam locomotive and life-size blue whale sculpture outside the Natural Science Museum. It’s always nice to go there with friends, but I find that it’s not so much a park where parents can sit on the grass and relax while children play, but more a place where kids are constantly mobile and exploring. Which means parents must be constantly mobile as well!
Gosh it doesn’t seem so long ago that it was that hot!…