View from our hotel room on the 29th floor
it's a long way down
a big train station oposite
a reasonable sized room with two single beds and a little desk
nice sized LCD telly
The floor's vending machine featuring beer, cold beer
The night time view, you can see the tokyo tower in the left of the picture
some long exposure messing about
vroom!
Our hotel (one of it's towers this is the one we are in 39 floors tall)
The view by day
pink!
The tokyo tower looks a bit like the eiffel tower except it's 13m taller at 333m tall. It is also a tv transmiter.
and again
Byrn in front of the tower
it's very tall and quite orange
the view from the main deck at 150m
the way up to the special deck it looked like it was going to be stairs to the top (another 100m) but there was a lift a few flghts up.
The view from the special observation deck at 250m
the view from the lift on the way down, not very good bit mucky windows
us in front of the tokyo tower
a temple of some description
a gate of some description
A petrol station with the pumps hanging down from the ceiling. It was also serviced.
POCKY!
some views from a bar called “The Top of Shinagawa” which is quite fabulously expensive but does have good views
some interesting reflections
This chili logo wasn't kidding these crisps were very hot
A temple
the same temple
The Beer Museum
A Beer Kettle
Byrnie driving the sapporo beer truck
Beer controls
The taster selection of 4 beers Yebusi, a weiss beer, a dark beer, and a major ale.
The Various Meat plate at the beer station
The Beer Station
A bridge outside the imperial gardens
You can see tokyo station in the distance
The fountains
One of the fort's there used to be many but only 3 survive
The tokyo tower in the distance
Fish!
The Entrance to the Imperial Gardens
A fish that used to be on the gate
A guard house where 100 trained samurai lived in shifts guarding the castle
Rebuilt wall
Tea house built in 1912 in another garden and moved here to the imperial garden when it was opened
The tea house again
bamboo
The stone cellar which may have been some sort of secret pasage or just a spare store room
Another of the forts the only three story one
The green fountain
Another guard house
A sparow
Entering akihabara electronics district
It's very bright like being inside a washing machine on fast spin with a load of christmas tree lights while some woman shouts nonsense at you in a shrill voice
The view from the 38f of the hotel in the japaese restaurant. You can see the tokyo tower and reflection of me and a chef
Slightly better shot showing the tower
Nice shot of the night skyline of tokyo the chefs in the restaurant and the two of us
Some spotty varients of the other fish
starfish
These stripy fish wouldn't keep still
see what I mean all blurs
Some sort of weird fish ... I probably should have looked at the names ... admittedly they were all in japanese
It's that weird fish again
Those little orange and black white stripy fish look the same as ones we took pictures of on the Great Barrier reef
Transparent fish
Sand worms
odd vertical fish
little sucker fish
Dolphins
really there are dolphins
You can sort of see them here
That blur is definately a dolphin
Lobster
A ray
This huge fish (maybe a metre or so across) is called an amusing sun fish
puffer fish
Some very tired penguins
”Bugger off we're trying to sleep!“
a grumpy looking eel
This crab has a very stylish hat
It's feeding time
it's a fish eat fish world
Nom Nom Nom
Akihabara electric town
Slightly more awake penguins
penguin poo
byrnie and the penguins
Look at this wonderful picture of a penguin not a model at all
Dolphins 1 of 200
This blur is a dolphin
multi-dolphin!
bit blury but an action shot
splash!
Still fairly amusing
