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At noon, visited Ueno Park
where the Nat. Hist. Mus. in
Imperial Museum is located.
This institution is old with
dusty decayed walls x
poor exhibits of mounted
mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes,
also mummies, fetters,
bats, tapirus, deer etc !
The zoo was also situated
in the park + was badly
arranged with small
Cages + sickly animals.
Many large trees grow
in the park. On one side
is a gigantic lily pond 1/
twice mile across. The Imperial
Muniversity is nearby +
has a large campus
with many buildings.
(29) Took the train for
Kobe at 9 Am. from
Yokohama. Many of the
steamer passengers were
on the train which made the