A colleague has plans to go Japan in March. While sharing my own experiences in Tokyo, I started thinking of what did I do while I was in Tokyo.
The thing that I remembered most fondly was not the good food, the shopping or even the onsen.
The thing I remember most was landing at an ungodly hour, and stumbling bleary eyed in the freezing early winter drizzle to the Shinjuku Gyoen holding a "stylish" transparent umbrella each.
As mundane and miserable as that might sound, I loved each and every moment of it.