Day 16: Shinjuku Gyoen Park

While we loved the Asakusa area that we stayed in the first week the Shinjuku area is by far more active and filled with things to do. Doing a little bit of research into things that you have to do if you visit Japan shows a couple of things in Shinjuku itself. One of these is the local garden. While we've visited a few gardens in our time here this one is a bit different. It was built in the Edo period and was used by the Imperial family around the beginning of the 20th century. The garden features three distinct zones meant to display traits of different types of gardens. One area is French, the other is English and the final area is a traditional Japanese garden.

Chrissy liked the huge leaves

Our first stop in the park was a rose garden, while the roses were nice it was obvious that the weather was starting to get a bit cold for them. Then we walked around a bit through the English and French areas before hitting the area that we were really interested in, the traditional Japanese garden.

There were a ton of people here.

The skyscrapers hovering over the garden was very surreal

Huge Koi as always

After our time at the park we did some more walking around the Shinjuku area. There's an area here called "Electric Street" that has a lot of electronics stores. Nothing too crazy there that we hadn't already seen in areas like Akihabara but it was fun to check out.

Spiderman = Ninja in New York apparently