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June is supposed to be the rainy month that's why I've to do all the open air activities while the weather is still dry. open air of course but overview as well. That's why I'm going to the Tokyo Tower today. I hope I can get some nice pictures or at least a nice souvenir of a panoramic view over thousands buildings.
The shortest and nicest way is to pass by the Zojuji Temple. It looks very small in comparison with the tower just behind but it looks nice and I'm curious to know more about small statues dressed in red everywhere in the park's temple. Those statues are for the memory of dead babies. The red clothes are supposed to help them to enter the world of the deaths and empeach their soul to come back haunt their family. People think that those baby who won't have a chance to know our world will get a revenge by haunting their parents and being harmful to their brothers and sisters.

Zojoji temple gathers about 1200 of those statues. A bit macabre in comparaison with Tokyo Tower. I'd rather call it cimetery than temple.

Well, I'm not the kind of people who enjoy making tourism in a cimetery, it's more a place for the dead family. So, I've seen and I'm ready now to visit the tower.

That's huge and high and it looks like the Eiffel Tower twin sister! 333 meters (the aim was to make it higher than Eiffel Tower). There're 2 observatories: the main one at 150 meters and the special one at 250 meters.
I'm a bit worried about getting a ticket. I don't know how many school buses are there. Pupils everywhere with their uniform. Hopefully, they are so busy by taking pictures and buying Hello Kitty products that I'm almost alone in the lift to the observatory.

I'm now in the main observatory, 150 meters. It's high of course but not that much. I mean we are surrounding by skyscrapers so I'm just a bit higher than them. I think the administration of the tower thought about it very carefully. Once we are up, we want go even higher. That's why there's an other observatory 100 meters above me. That's clever because now, they ask extra fees to get there. That's not that expensive but it's a metter of principle. Anyway, I want see, I'm sure it worths the extra price. the guy who "drive" the lift (sorry I don't know how to call him and even not in French, shame on me) is waiting for us. He's wearing a blue suit with a red tie and white gloves. I noticed that there's about 10 men from 50 to 60 wearing black suit and tie (hopefully no white gloves) and me, in tourist clothes meaning no suit, no tie, no gloves but a big rucksack, a pair of flip-flops, my camera and some sunburn from Yokohama harbour. So elegant!
First, I'm afraid. The lift has windows so we can see outside. We can see us going higher and higher and higher. I'm not looking down of course because if I do I'm sure I make a heart attack. Actually I don't understand myself. I've the fear of heights. I can't go at the top of a tower using the stairs. I remember how bad I felt in Tallin tower and Prag. I couldn't stay there, it was horrible. Here it's a bit different. We are taking a lift and eventhough I can see everything through the window I know that I'm inside, that I can't fall. In a strair case, I can fall. That makes a HUGE difference.Well then, I'm still alive and glad to fight against my fear: the view is gorgeous. Only the city, kilometers of city, full of buildings and concrete, more  green spaces than I imagine but first of all a sea of buildings. It's probably even more amazing by night with the lights.

I took pictures of course but almost got mad: it doesn't show how impressing it is. There are the best I've taken:

Back to the main observatory. There's a lot of pupils with their teacher and young kids with their family. The shops is so crowded that I can't enter. I decide to get a coffe. That's fun to drink a capuccino here but a shame I didn't come on the evening. The tower got several lights effects and there's concert in live almost every night.
Before to leave I want do something completely crazy for me: stand on one of the window on the floor. I don't know how, I don't know why but I did it and that was fun!

To leave the tower you need to pass by the shops (I really wonder why) and try to guess what is the 1st shop I see? HELLO KITTY!!!! Yes, you can laugh, make fun of me or anything else you want but I love Hello Kitty. She's so cute and I loose at least 23 years when I see her. And I'm not the only one!!

The afternoon is still young and still frustrated by yesterday, by the fact I didn't get time for another museum in Ueno Park. I want go now...