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Leaving calm of the lotus pond behind us, and the warmth (it was now pouring with rain, requiring g us all to buy umbrellas – the  weather seems to change here  as often as it does in the U.K.) we dashed around Tokyo visiting a print gallery (Yamada shorten) where we saw many fantastic new and old woodblock prints, an art shop Bumpodo, ( not really knowing what we should buy,) and a paper shop, Ozu washi, which was all overwhelming!

Then we managed to get all our cases and ourselves through the busy streets with the help of a taxi, to the bus station and out to Kawaguchiko, which we didn’t see in daylight until the next day….

 


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Having flown from Birmingham to Tokyo via Munich, and having found my way across Tokyo to a meeting point in a hotel in the Ueno area of the city, I was pleased to  set up with some of our group. Two of who live in Japan at the moment met us in Kawaguchiko. We went with Mia, a Tokyo artist, to the MI Lab Tokyo office to register, and met Sato-san. Having made some introductions, we had a wander around the area and enjoyed the warmth of an autumnal day in Ueno park. I was impressed by calm and peace of the temple and the lotus pond which I hadn’t expected to find in the largest city in the world!


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