The 飼りれのれい (my keyboard switches from time to time to Japanese) ... Start again. The hostel staff pointed me in the direction of a good running spot beside the Sumida River very close to here. The morning crowd is very different from Korea and from the evening Tokyo crowd. In Korea I was always joined by walkers and joggers in their colourful track suits, visors and masks, getting their daily exercise. Not here. I got lots of quizzical looks from men in business suits as I jogged down the street and across the bridge to find the river walk. It took me a few tries of running down dead end shipping paths and crossing back and forth over various bridges before I found the correct path.
It was a very nice trail, although noisy as the traffic ran overhead. The street people here have set up shop by the river -- each one having a very tidy area made of either cardboard boxes or covered by blue tarps. Oddly, I felt no fear at all as I jogged passed. Some were sitting cross-legged in their make shift homes, dressed and reading the morning paper. I was surprised at how clean it all is. Perhaps that is their agreement with the authorities?
Not sure what the day will bring -- a little more exploring in Tokyo and then we will take the train to Kyoto late this afternoon. It is warm (19C) and cloudy today.
In joy, Tanya
It was a very nice trail, although noisy as the traffic ran overhead. The street people here have set up shop by the river -- each one having a very tidy area made of either cardboard boxes or covered by blue tarps. Oddly, I felt no fear at all as I jogged passed. Some were sitting cross-legged in their make shift homes, dressed and reading the morning paper. I was surprised at how clean it all is. Perhaps that is their agreement with the authorities?
Not sure what the day will bring -- a little more exploring in Tokyo and then we will take the train to Kyoto late this afternoon. It is warm (19C) and cloudy today.
In joy, Tanya
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