March 2000: Tokyo, Japan
A week in Tokyo attending the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee and seeing a wedding at the Meiji Shrine, cosplay in Yoyogi Park, and the Dragon Festival at the Sensoji Temple during the weekends.
A week in Tokyo attending the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee and seeing Cosplay in Yoyogi Park and a Dragon Festival at the weekends.
Work Trips / Past Times / Tokyo 2000
by Peter Taylor · Published 19/03/2000 · Last modified 07/01/2021
A week in Tokyo attending the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee and seeing a wedding at the Meiji Shrine, cosplay in Yoyogi Park, and the Dragon Festival at the Sensoji Temple during the weekends.
The Meiji Shrine is a Shinto shrine commemorating the Emperor Meiji, who died in 1912. It is set in an evergreen forest of trees donated...
Tokyo Streets: Tokyo is a huge city and yet, walking around in the fairly central area where the Japanese Meteorological Agency is located, near The...
The Golden Dragon dance of Sensoji Temple takes place on the 18th March each year. It celebrates the day in 628 that Shokanzeon Bosatsu, the deity...
It was probably on that last Sunday that I visited the Imperial Palace Gardens. I’d previously visited them in 1991 and then, as now, the...