Fifteenth and Sixteenth

FIFTEENTH WEEK

HIGASHIYAMA ZOO

 Take the train at Hongo St. and get off at Higashiyama Koen. Then just follow the signs that lead to Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Gardens.

 It's exit #3

 Once you leave the underground go to the right.

 Walking that way there will be a supermarket called Food Front.

 Pass the supermarket.

 Keep going straight and the zoo will be at the end.  Entrance is 500 yen.

 I came after running some errands so by the time I got to the zoo it was close to closing time. So what I saw most was people cleaning the habitats and only a few animals.

 I don't know if it was because they were cleaning the habitats or what, but the animals I did see were in really small enclosures, too small if you ask me.

 That's the Sky Tower.

 They really do stand up in one leg.

 I really hope that the animals were in such small cages because their habitats were being cleaned.

That was the last animal I had a chance to see.  The zoo was much bigger but I ran out of time and I had to leave the zoo.

SIXTEENTH WEEK

SKIING & SNOWBOARDING

 Some friends took me skiing and snowboarding for the first time.  I was more busy trying out snowboarding and skiing than taking photos, so I only took a few when I first got there. I managed to get the hang of skiing pretty quick, since the dynamics of turning was a little like skating for me.  But snowboarding I could never got the hang of.  Eventually I managed to fall hard on my tailbone when I lost control snowboarding.  Didn't break it, but I did bruise it.  It hurt a lot when I fell and when I kept falling afterwards, but it hurt more the next day.