Our day in Tokyo

We headed out for an early walk before breakfast, down a main road to the bridge on the Sumida River. It was quiet at about 6.30 am with only a few people on the streets. We then headed along the river to Sensoji Temple which also had very few people at that hour.  We were disappointed with the cherry blossoms which had not yet come out much.We then headed back for breakfast. The Ryokan was a bit like a backpackers with younger people eating western breakfast but we paid extra for the Japanese breakfast and enjoyed it.
Then it was time to head for Ueno Park - too early for public transport - we enjoyed the walk about 30 minutes, skirted around the end of the park and over to an older area, wandered around narrow streets and eventually back to the Park. We later found that it was THE Sakura day at Ueno - featured on the ABC in Australia. Our target was to get our Railpasses at Ueno station. I had thought it would be easier that getting them at Haneda on arrival, but we were informed that the queue would take an hour and a half. We had no choice but to join it, and reserved our se tsto Kanazawa and Takayama while we were there.
We wandered back up into the park with the crowds and headed toward the museum. I had read that it was free entry for seniors but it turned out to be 70 and we decided to head over to Asakusa to get tickets for Nikko the next day. Dick had the bright idea of walking and we were not keen to return to the busy station so we headed off. It was an interesting walk. For a crowded city we managed to spend a lot of time away from people.
Once we had our Nikko pass and seat booking for next day we headed back to Andon. It was getting late and we were tired.
After a rest we went out again to find food at a supermarket.
Fortunately our little room was very comfortable and we slept very well.