Japan Day Five ( Mt Takao - Morning)

So we started the morning like most mornings, walking to Ueno from Asakusa (20 min walk) for easy train adventures, Ueno station was always kind to us! I have to point out here that the travel gods really smiled upon on and we managed to navigate our way through the tokyo train system like some sort of sumo pro!

pink bus!!!

giant bug on house! mmm, don't ask, it's Japan!

an hour and a half later we'd left the city scrappers behind and we're at the base of Mt Takao, for today's adventures!!

Not only were the train gods smiling upon us, but so were the cable car gods and we managed to hop on one, just as it was leaving and these babies aren't on the frequent side!

You can't tell by this picture, but going up a mountain in a cable car is actually kind of scary!

but so beautiful once up top...clearly also an elderly person destination!

So what's the first thing a lazy person who hasn't actually climbed the mountain do when reaching the top?

have lunch!

mmm, how I miss you Japan and all your little bowls of deliciousness

Next it was onto more serious things like monkey parks

It was so exciting cause there were baby monkeys, one being just over a month old!

awww kawaii!

The monkey park also had a flower park attached to it, so after our monkey cuteness we wandered

did some fake bird watching

and then decided to leave

BUT WAIT! on our way out of the park guess who we ran into??

A guy with a monkey

It was so fun watching Ben with the monkey, because he'd never seen monkeys before, never even been to a zoo.

Monkeys are so cool and so good at working zips on a bag :P

awww bye bye cute monkey. 

But watch out cause some monkeys are angry, or I think that's what the sign says!

Alright stay tuned to part two where I'll wrap up the mountain that is Takao!