The train station is only 8 minutes away but finding the exact train platform took almost as long. Half a dozen train lines stop here and then there are the JR trains too. We were looking for a JR train and all the JR trains are lumped together which is why it tool us a bit longer. We had a Progressive Park Picnic planned and we brought pickled cucumbers, pickled eggplant and daikon radish, chicken salad with walnuts and oranges. We ate these items at four different places in the park. That was fun on this wonderful day. It reached 80 degrees but with a low humidity and a nice breeze. We wandered about the park for close to three hours. We saw folks young and old enjoying the park. Lots of birds two lifebirds. While we were there, we decided to take a jaunt through the zoo too.
A new station for us
At first I thought it was a bird but it is the girls hat being saved
Pretty crowded
We have arrived at the station closest to the zoo
A Western Art Museum is also here
The progression humans
One huge tree in flower
Tight blooms
Nice lantern
A bell or a water jar
The first temple of the day
Neigh!
A tree all up in knots
This is a very large park
Waterbirds everywhere
A memorial to eyeglasses of the a Shogun from 1604
A memorial to the folks with licenses to cook the poisonous blowfish, fugu
A sundial as a memorial to calendars
Big grey heron
Little grebe with a lily pad
Stop #2, samdwiches
Egret
Grey Heron
Little Grebe
Heron of some sort
The pagoda was delightful
A QR code for the bathroom map
What kind of vendor's cart?
The black tailed gull
A sassy looking gull
White Cheeked Starling
The fish were eating on this leaf
Beautiful
A green butterfly
A whole flock of swans
Elegant statue
It is the Can Man
Irises!
A big food truck
Beautiful iris
Lavender
A huge pond
Tiny cherries?
Turtle head
the amphitheater
Six feet long at least
So pretty
A young Little Grebe
An azure oriental magpie
A beautiful call
Off he goes!
The paddle boats were a bit too small for us to ride
Hood ornament
White Lotus
A golden starburst above
At the temple, so many wishes
Prayers presented at the temple
Crab sticks
A dragon fountain
Very detailed
Large lantern
One leg heron
The pagoda off in the distance
Cormorants on the nest
Lemurs
Ring tailed
Nice blooms in the reptile house
Snake necked turtle
Shoe doilies?
Flamingo a go go
More orange than pink
The shoebill bird was behind thick glass and a strong wire mesh
Great concrete work
Owl you doing?
Grape bird
Snack time for a panda
This is tasty!
Chomp chomp chomp
Panda Selfie
So many nests
Crossing over tot the station of return home
Zigging and zagging
Flower eating pigeons
Book reading owls
An owl shop
Hungry much?
