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….
