19 November 2023
Salty and hydrated
Tokyo Ueno area
I got a bit dehydrated today, which made the train ride back from the hike a bit annoying, my legs were getting a bit crampy, felt a bit nauseous. So I drank a huge amount of water when I got back to my hotel. Probably 2 litres. This meant my evening needed to circle public toilets. I think I went 3 times in an hour. I like to over share.
As threatened I stayed very local, Ueno, more specifically from my hotel in South Ueno at Okachimachi to the Ueno station and back again, checking out a few stores to see if they had a toilet in between.
The streets were still quite busy, even though a few places were shut due to it being Sunday. Tourists love to come to the Ameyoko area of Ueno and stand up and eat seafood. It seems you can smoke while you are doing this! Disgusting.
Over the road from my hotel is the lane-way that eventually becomes Ameyoko.
Book off is also Hard off and Hobby off. Here is their guitar selection, not great.
The spot in Ameyoko where everyone takes the photo, so I did.
Heading under the tracks always provides good photos.
Between the tracks. I like this photo.
I headed into Ueno station to find another public toilet.
I was hungry and decided I wanted some salt. Ramen it will be then. This place had no customers, my kind of place.
And actually, it was pretty good! They think they are good enough to put their name in their bowls. Lotus root and a huge but of bamboo. I rounded it out with an ice cream from 7-eleven soon after.
Tomorrow is NOT a hiking day.