They were kind of lazy bums though even so. The rest of the morning we just spent exploring all the areas of the zoo. Major highlights were this tiger:
All of the crazy weird signage:
And the adorable little school children:
After the zoo we stopped at a little cafeteria for lunch and I had the cutest panda bear bread for dessert. It was super delicious as well. I haven't been disappointed by Japanese desserts once yet.
After lunch I stayed in Ueno park and visited the National Museum of Nature and Science. I was lucky that about half of the museum was closed for renovations because the place was huge, and I stayed until they closed and were forced to kick me out. They had the largest collection of every specimen I have seen from rocks, plants, animals, pine cones, sea shells, butterflies, fungus, mushrooms, bacteria... you name it they had it. It was way overwhelming, but I have realized that I really love going to museums in Japan because I don't feel bad for not reading every little thing because I can't read any of it. Its like reading a book, but only looking at the pictures. Sometimes it is nice to not have to think too much, but I couldn't really understand all of what was going on at the museum.
I saw a lot of skeletons and parts of animal that i just saw alive at the zoo, so I was really glad that we went to the zoo before the nature museum and not after... My favorite area was of course the plant room.
After the museum I needed a little rest from walking around so I decided to go and finally visit a cat cafe. I went to Neku Maru Cat Cafe right next to Ueno station for an experience I will probably never forget.
The cafe was on the 8th floor of a building so I took the elevator up and then arrived at the front door. I had to take my shoes off and put on cute little cat slippers and then they made me lock up all of my stuff and she told me that they charged by the minute.
It was definitely not the experience I was expecting at all at a cat cafe. I had imagined that it would just be a normal cafe with food and drinks and then there just happened to be cats roaming around. But no, this was a cat cafe and you paid to sit around in a room full of cats. I walked in and luckily there were other people there already so I didn't feel quite to weird. I sat there trying to get the cats to play with me but none of them seemed very interested. The most exciting thing that happened was one cat jumped down on the water machine and started dispensing hot water while the other cats just stared.
I think I only stayed here about 20 mins max and then I had to get out. I don't know why they don't have dog cafes because that would be much more entertaining.
After that weird experience I decided to end my night by going to the Tokyo Tower since I didn't get a chance to go while we were living in Roppongi. The Tokyo Tower was inspired by the Eiffel Tower so it does look a little bit similar but this one is supposed to be taller I guess. Personally I think the Eiffel Tower is a lot more impressive, but I had a really great time at the Tokyo Tower as well.
I coincidentally timed it perfectly so I got to the top just in time to watch the sunset. It was still a cloudy day so I didn't get to see Mt. Fuji but I did see Disneyland from the top! On my way back down the tower there just happened to be a Marion Crepes stand, which is the crepe place that the internet suggested I try. So of course I did, and it was the perfect ending to this very busy day. This was our last day off for awhile, back to class tomorrow.
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