riontel | Japan: Day One, Ueno Park (Reply)

a_lazy_legend already did her take on this attraction but I was in the neighborhood and decided to stop by despite her unfavorable account. I came to the neighborhood to activate my JR pass but like a complete idiot I forgot to bring along my passport so that had to be postponed.

The park was a bit scary. It's overrun by a huge number of homeless people, who made quite a home out of it. You can see small huts all over the place, complete with clothes lines and other features of human habitation. Along with hordes of homeless the park is teaming with cats, who look a lot cleaner and better taken care of than humans. So visitors admire and pamper ubiquitous cats and studiously ignore fellow human beings.

I also didn't make it into any museums because it was getting a bit late and I didn't want to get stuck in the area after dark, but I did stop by the courtyard of one of them to capture some sculptures of owls.