Tokyo’s public transportation system really is a thing of wonder, but personally, traveling by bus has never been a pleasant experience; traffic in the city can be pretty awful, plus I’m never completely sure if I’ve boarded the right vehicle or not. This latter problem in particular makes every journey feel like a magical mystery tour of sorts, which in some cases can be quite fun, but not when a specific destination, at a specified time, is the target.
Yet that said, if every journey involved views of lovingly recreated Kenyan mosques and really up close lions like this one, then I’d be inclined to get the bus a bit more often.