Alone in Japan for 28 Days: Day 6 - Ueno Koen and Tokyo Night Views

I had such a fab day today. I went to Ueno koen in the morning and wandered around. I sat down and shortly afterwards spotted a young couple of tourist, so I got up and walked towards them and started a conversatiion. They were Australian and really nice, and we ended up going around the whole zoo together for about 2.5 to 3 hours! It was just the same as most other zoos, I was just appreciating the company.

At around half 3ish, they went to Asakusa, and I sat on a bench in the shade for a while, resting my feet. After a while, a red haired girl walked past and sat on a bench near me. She appeared to be alone, so I went and said hello. Turns out she was Russian and hardly spoke a word of English, but she was studying Japanese so we managed to have a sort of conversation in Japanese. She was really sweet.

When she left, I wandered out of the zoo back into the park, and sat on another bench. ( I'm not really lazy, I had been on my feet for the whole morning!) After a while a tired looking girl/young woman came and sat on the bench next to me. She looked really tires so I didn't say anything for a few minutes. Then I asked if she was travelling alone, and she was, and I quickly joined her on her bench. She was Italian and so nice, and we talked for ages.

After a while I mentioned that I was going to the Tokyo Metropolitan Office buildings in Shinjuku tonight as they have a free observation deck (unlike Tokyo Tower and the Skytree Tower) and she asked if she could come! Obviously I was thrilled at the prospect, so we headed off to Shinjuku at around 5pm. We got to the building at around 5:45, so I managed to take some pics of the daytime view: