The Imperial Gardens and TMOMA
I love museums so when I discovered this morning that for ¥2,000 I could get access to dozens of museums in Tokyo, I immediately knew how I was going to spend my next few days. But before hitting the museum circuit I explored the Imperial Gardens surrounding the Imperial Palace at the heart of Tokyo. [The Japanese imperial family has the longest unbroken lineage of any monarchy in history, having ruled the country since 660 BC.] The gardens are surrounded by a moat and the walls within them are made of 35-ton granite blocks.
Upon leaving the gardens I went to the Tokyo Museum of Modern Art, where they had some pretty interesting stuff, including looping animated pictures housed within frames to appear like regular paintings. They even gave me special permission to photograph a sculpture - Eve looking dejected after eating the apple - that caught my fancy. After lunch I visited the Bridgestone museum, where my favourite piece was a cubist (I presume) interpretation of Rodin's famous sculpture, The Kiss, in which the figures looked like blockheads.
