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Published: April 8th 2024
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Started our first full day with a buffet breakfast and set off around 8:50 expecting to reach our first stop, Small Worlds around 10am but I made a mistake thinking we had to change trains, when in fact, it was a matter of staying on the same train even though the line changed. I didn’t even realise that was possible. Luckily, I realised we were going in the wrong direction after the change and Krissy noticed how Google Maps said “remain on train”. I guess it was another Seniors moment.
We reached Small World’s at 10:30am and we enjoyed looking at all the miniature model scenes, especially Oscar, which was the main reason we chose this attraction. Being a Monday, it wasn’t busy so it was very easy to look around. They can even make miniature versions of you by using a full body scanner. The people who make the models are very skilful and I imagine they must love their work. Spent about one hour looking at the exhibits, which was quicker than normal because it was so quiet. The area that Small Worlds’ is in, was also very interesting as it it all looked very new with many
sporting venues, which we guessed, and was later confirmed, to have been built for the last Tokyo Olympics. Some really interesting architecture.
We reached teamLab Planets at noon so decided to have lunch at a Vegan Ramen restaurant right opposite teamLab. Our pre-paid ticket was for 13:00 so we thought we had plenty of time, but it took ages to get our food because they were ultra busy. But luckily, the line moved quickly and we got in almost on time. We all had a great time there enjoying the amazing displays. Everyone is required to walk in with bare feet especially as wading through knee deep water is part of one of the displays. Coloured fish are projected onto milky looking water and the displays interacts with people as they wade through. Knee deep for Oscar means waist deep of course, but even that wasn’t good enough for him and he proceeded to chase the fish almost on hands and knees, so his whole body was under water. The other patrons found him extremely amusing and I think he added to their enjoyment of the display. After this display they give you a towel to dry your legs
and feet but because Oscar required a full change of clothes, they allowed us to go out a different way to change him and we were told to come back that way, but Krissy and Daisy didn’t catch that and I heard it but thought I must have mis-heard, so we continued onto the next section. When we finished I had a suspicion that we had not seen everything and realised that I probably did hear correctly, so we went back to the special exit and explained to the man what had happened and he took us back in and indeed, there were still another three exhibits we had missed the first time through. We spent almost 2.5 hours in Planets. Thoroughly recommend giving teamLab Planets a visit. The other teamLab Borderless is bigger so would also be excellent, I’m sure.
We then took almost 1.5 hours to get back to Ueno Park at around 17:00. Ueno Park is very close to our hotel so was a great place to end the day. It is one of the recommended places to see the cherry blossoms and it didn’t disappoint. We had a lovely walk around the lake at the
southern end of the park and there were many food stalls at the northern end of the lake where we stopped for some kebab sticks before heading back to our hotel around 18:40pm
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Graeme Sandstrom
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Well done Ray. I hope the little bloke is enjoying all of these amazing exhibits that Mary and I have never heard of. Well researched as usual. It’s looks beautiful over there at this time of the year especially with the cherry blossoms. Was the Saturn V for me? Haha!