Tokyo, part 3

Sakura decorations in a Ginza department store.

An information center for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Couldn't resist taking a photo of an expensive purse with San Francisco scenes.

Entrance to the Imperial Palace Gardens which is the first place we went on the Road Scholar tour.

There were cherry blossom trees lining many of the streets in Tokyo.

Ueno Park

This park allowed drinking so there were lots of office workers enjoying picnics under the cherry blossoms.

Tokyo National Museum

The Kabuki Theater building

Sakura toilet paper

We went to a performance of the Kabuki theater.  It lasted from 11 am until 3:45 pm, so it is traditional to have a bento box lunch during one of the intermissions.  They also make a special dessert (below)  which is a fish shaped pastry that you can only get at the theater.  We weren't sure that we would last for the entire performance but it was an amazing spectacle.  Before the performance, we had a lecture about the history of Kabuki and what plays we would see that day.  We also had hand held translation devices so we knew what was going on.