Tokyo Station and Imperial Palace

We had some time between needing to check out of our hotel before checking into our next, so we stored our luggage at Tokyo Station and walked around. First off, storing our luggage was a bit of an adventure because I didn’t have the right Yen coins for the lockers. But it all got sorted out in the end, even if we needed to call a worker to manually open mine back up 🤦🏻‍♀️ Tokyo Station is huge! It is the busiest station in Japan with local and regional high speed lines converging there. We walked through character street and had lunch on ramen street. Next we walked over to the Imperial Palace. We didn’t see the palace itself, just the east gate which is remnants of an old Edo Castle. I loved the manicured pine trees, Japanese black pine trees (Pinus thunbergi) and the streets lined with colorful ginkgo trees. Ginkgos (Ginkgo biloba) are one of my favorite trees!