We beat the German tourist buses by 45 minutes. That was a good call.

Crossing the bridge from Ginza. The meeting point of ancient and modern.

This garden was made for hawk hunting during the Edo period. Channel your inner samaurai.

The juxtaposition has the trees all confused.

Snake! Another harmeless one. One for each city.

See? This tree is completely confused.

And so is this one.

Is this nature?

Or the city?

Perhaps the city is natural. 100% Earth stuff.

As a result of our punctuality, we walked right in for a morning matcha at the famous tea house.

And even swapped over to the prime table.

And we made our way back into Ginza on our Hello Kitty quest (part 2).