Engrish welcome and pyjamas at hotel in Ueno.
Hotel room entry.
The room.
The bum shower.
You get used to it. Really. You do.
Good has liberal definitions.
Just a map of a park area in Ueno.
Museum or Art gallery to the left. But it was closed on Mondays.
Outside the dingy entrance to an old zoo. Also closed.
Empty kiddie park. Poor Picachu.
Ueno temple entrance.
Just some dealies by the temple.
The temple, like everything else here, closed.
Wishes on wood.
Gravestone and pagoda.
Guard house or something next to the Ueno lake.
Not much call for winter boating.
There's lake in there somewhere.
Ueno random building.
So calm in pictures, so loud in person. Some dude was hawking cell phones through a megaphone behind me.
The short building with a red roof on the bottom left is one entrance to the Ueno station.
Typical side street.
Shibuya! Hachiko mural. The dog that waited for his dead master every day.
Until he was bronzed. This is a *very* popular meeting spot. (not now...it's early)
Shibuya intersection. One of the most crowded in the world. Just not at this time. 5pm? Bloody insane.
Clock in the park. Feels like it should be in Wellington.
Graffiti? Murals? Who knows. The bridge is pedestrians only.
To this park.
Nothing special.
These crows(?) were the size of small dogs and sounded like a choking baby.
Just more park stuff. If I'm bored, how must you feel?
Christmas store in Ueno.
Jack Black, the drink. I didn't try it...
Shinjuku at night. (not the busy intersection).
Pint of black Japanese microbrew. And empties of our previous ones.
The beer menu. About $10/pint. All quality stuff.
I didn't get a closer look.
Some funky trees on the road to Asakusa.
Teacup and Chef buildings.
It's the kitchen district!
And then there's godzilla.
Elaborate sidewalk in Asakusa.
Some temple in Asakusa.
A tomb across from the temple.
Typical train station basement market. Everything from fish and meat to veggies and chocolates.
I just like these cranes. In Tokyo district.
Big toys.
Just generic shot of Toyko. Plus a weird brown building.
Salarymen and Christmas Trees.
Hard to tell (or get a good picture), but both sides of the road were lined with purple flowers and Christmas decor.
Sweet ride.
Nearby the Imperial Palace.
Huge, empty parking lot, trees, and skyscrapers.
No entrance to the palace is allowed, but this is one of the better views onto the grounds.
How very traditional.
Without zoom.
One of the gates into the public grounds.
Big and old.
Some government building. (I'm was very informed on my wanderings.)
Park / Botanical Garden -- Hibiya Park near Ginza.
Funky building in Shimbashi.
Sky train station and skyscraper in Shimbashi.
Fake snowy and some people in costume. Let's get a closer look.
What a strange person. (Just showing off the zoom on my new camera. )
More big buildings gaped at by a slack-jaw tourist.
Ginza.
Every single thing sold on this street is worth more than me. And probably you too.
Eco-wall?
The main Ginza strip.
Nice big sidewalks.
Weird ride.
Tokyo Metropolitan Building, Shinjuku.
Some other big building.
The MET square...er, circle.
MET closeup.
View from the MET, 40-somethingth floor.
Vertigo?
Mount Fuji is supposed to be in one of these shots, on a clear day.
More of Shinjuku.
There's Tokyo's gherkin, except that the lattice is permanent.
Some sculpture outside the MET.
Washington Hotel. They couldn't afford bigger windows.
Shinjuku at dusk.
Gherkin up close. Apparently a school of fashion.
More dusk Shinjuku.
Plastic food. Even the beer.
Just one of many free advertisement + tissue packages I collected.
Tsukiji Fish Market. Frozen tuna + saw = breakfast!
This was one of maybe 20 or more rows of fresh market fish. You could probably find fillet of mermaid if you looked hard enough.
Some crazy building near the fish market.
Rainbow bridge that crosses over to Odaiba where this nice artifical beach is.
Ginza sign. If you understand, feel free to explain.
About to meet my buddy Scott in Ginza and I find a bar with his name on it.
Ginza, at night. I'm standing in front of the Apple store, which offers free internet on iMacs.
The Porn Claw.
Harajuku Temple.
Another view, for those so inclined.
All those little squares are wooden cards that people buy and write wishes on.
Temple area entrance.
Blessed wine info.
The wine.
One such, of many.
This entire building is electronics. Each floor. Futureshop on crack.
Narita airport. Stout. Mmm. Molsen Canadian airports can go to hell.
Hungry after the beer. So much that I could eat a horse...
Small horse, but it'll do. Like beef, but really stringy.
