Our excursion today was intended to be a 2 hour bus ride through the city. Originally it would have stopped at the Imperial Palace. But with the new Emperor and the country wide 10 day holiday, that wasn’t possible. But we drove by the palace. Sort of. Our two hour drive took 3hours. And the police made us turn around after being stuck at a standstill for 20 minutes.
But the good part of the drive. These buildings under construction are part of the dormitories For the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. And we can see them from our ship. We are right next to the Olympic village.
We saw several of the sports venues under construction. This one is the volleyball venue. It will be fun to watch the Olympics and see the buildings completed. I feel certain that many cruise lines have booked dock space to just stay and have basically a floating hotel for perhaps a week or so.
We did drive by one of the Temple areas. I was glad we didn’t try to stop. Do you see the crowds. If someone got lost we could have been there for hours trying to find them.
We will fight huge crowds until Tuesday when the holiday ends. But by then we have left Tokyo and only have one more stop in Japan. Oh well. It is fun.
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