Tokyo city

Clean, green, friendly and accessible. Those are my first impressions. Another huge city and once again I am amazed by how spotlessly clean it is... Not one piece of rubbish to be seen on the streets at all. The city also has so many parks and trees. A very modern city with bits of history just here and there. We visited the imperial palace and the central buddhist temple which dates back to 628AD. Shopping shopping everywhere with cell phones less than half price of what they are at home.  The city is full of vending machines. You can just about buy anything you want or need from one. You know that game where you put your money in and you use a claw to try to select a prize? We found one where the prizes were fish... Rubber ones not real ones. What is that all about?? For a city with 13 million people it doesn't feel any more crowded than Auckland until you hit the underground and then you would swear each and every one of those 13 million are there with you. The traffic is good and not at all like the chaos on other Asian roads AND they drive on the same side of the road as us.  So far... Loving Japan!!