This week I was feeling lonely…Lonely Planet, that is. The Lonely Planet Tokyo guidebook is a handy pocket/purse size and has this somewhat intimidating city conveniently broken down into neighborhoods. This is very helpful, because it’s difficult to get a good sense of where anything is in Tokyo when all your travel is done below ground and no station map cares to orient itself north. Disorienting doesn’t begin to describe Tokyo sometimes. Anywho, my Tokyo Afternoon Tea Club buddy Nancy and I decided to explore the offerings set before us in Ebisu. 

We took the Yamanote line one stop south of Ebisu to Meguro and began our adventure by promptly getting lost. Oh, look, a food and imported wine shop! How convenient, they have samples. The nice shop girls gave us directions to our destination and about 10 minutes later we arrived at Stop 1: The Meguro Parasitological Museum. “Try to think about parasites without a feeling of fear, and take the time to learn about their wonderful world of the Parasites,” boasts the free museum’s website. Truthfully, I did not look on the exhibits with fear, but rather nausea.




A little bit of West
And somewhere in between
We’ll find home and rest!

Then we dashed home on the Den-en-Toshi line, stopped at a bakery to get bread for dinner, and called it a night!