Tokyo, Honshu (Japan)

Dennis took me into "the big city" today - it was very hot but the sun wasn't too bad on my easily-burned skin. To get there, we rode the train until we got to the main station in Tokyo. After that, we walked around in the Shibakoen area. There is a pretty shrine there and - unexpected - a tree that President Ulysses Grant planted when he was in the country in the 1870s. While walking here, we learned that the Imperial Gardens were open (kind of rare, I think). We saw lots of interesting buildings, gardens and the ruins of Shogun Tokugawa's palace. Near the end of the day we walked around the Tokyo Tower and had and early dinner in the Hard Rock Cafe. Eventually, we [hailed a cab and] went to the train station so we could head back to NAF Atsugi.  We arrived on base at around sunset and I headed back to my room at the CBH.  What an experience!