Arrive in Japan! Aronamin C is the bee's knees!
Fruitio will have you making Spanish dancing hand gestures.
Shingo goes bananas. NB moustache.
Imagine Darth in Japanese. Go on. They really had Darth talking Japanese.
This is a freeway on ramp.
Canal, Ikejiri-Ohashi. There is another pretty canal just like this in Nakameguro
Ikejiri-Ohashi, Tokyo.
Ikejiri-Ohashi, Tokyo. Tomitaro makes a variant on tonkatsu called barakatsu, using the ribs. SUGOI OISHII!
Cool artisan breadshops are the in thing in Tokyo right now. Ikejiri-Ohashi.
Yes! Make Eurasian Babies! whatever this is seems to be quite popular.
Odaiba. It's like North Korea with capitalism and good architects.
Big Sight still has the PHWOAR factor with me. Just hope there's no earthquakes
Back blocks of Daikanyama.
Back blBack blocks of Daikanyama.
Back blocks of Daikanyama. Must remember to go to this bar it looks megacool.
This bar looks mighty cool (ZOUNIYA)
It's what it says it is!
The door to White Mountaineering, Daikanyama. Disorientingly WHITE.
Daikanyama.
Shibuya station. I think this is Tadao Ando.
A derivative of the process used to make the Pet Bottle?
The TV backdrop that time forgot.
And the prize for world's daggiest TV backdrop goes to…
Futakotamagawa.
Futakotamagawa riverside party! Don't know if this happens every weekend or if it's a special event…
Futakotamagawa
Peace Tokyo Futakotamagawa. おしゃれ。
Peace Tokyo Futakotamagawa again. It's nice.
Peace Tokyo.
Den-en-chofu Stn.
Den-en-chofu.
My guess is someone seriously okanemochi and oshare lives behind these doors.
Neo-Georgian THERE IS NO ESCAPE
This, this is a HOUSE.
Found this little art-kissa on TABELOG. So cute. ギャラリー るなん
Jiyuugaoka.
The cake is on the right. The packaging probably weighs more. They offered to put it in a carry bag, even though it has a handle. Dominique Sabrion @ Tokyu Foodshow Shibuya. OISHII
Department store dinner. (Tokyu Foodshow)
Fujisawa
I've seen a few of these mammoth station "beautification" schemes involving large sky-plazas. There was another at Matsudo
Be very scared. There are cows that can eat pigs whole and roosters that are three feet high. (Fujisawa)
Bills Shichirigahama
Breakfast at Bills Shichirigahama. Kinda Aussie, kinda NOT
WHY WHY WHY? Shichirigahama
Shichirigahama
Atami
Be careful to tsunamis!
Kunikaku in Atami.
Kunikaku, Atami
Give your shiba some nailpolish.
Abandoned tourist facility, Skyline Road near Atami
Abandoned tourist facility, Skyline Road, Atami area
GRANPAL PORT
SHIBA INU!!!!!!!! So exciting.
Minshuku Haji in Shimoda - this is a meal for ONE.
My room at Minshuku Haji
Abandoned (?) hotel, Shimoda area.
Shimoda
Road from Shimoda. Abandoned stuff.
Egawa's old house, Nirayama, Izu.
Roof structure, Egawakan, Izu.
Myouhokkeji near Mishima. This Buddhist temple is so beautiful.
Steps at Myouhokkeji.
Myouhokkeji. What was really weird was that it was completely deserted. No tourists, no staff.
Peace.
I want to become a monk and live at Myouhokkeji. Onegai!
So nice. Myouhokkeji (Izu)
Kaiseki at Gora Kadan. I could take it or leave it. Prefer fucha.
Brush Up at Toki No Sumika (Time's House). A truly Japanese experience. They got a cheap deal on the fairy lights.
Japan makes me so happy.
OK, so I still have no idea what this is. It's some kind of resort accommodation at Toki no Sumika (in Gotemba.)
OK I've done my research now - these are the "Slow House Villas" at Tokinosumika.
Slow House Villas, Tokinosumika, Gotemba, Japan.
NOT Easter Island.
The very big little prince.
A bloody big bell. For scale, the signs on either side are about human height.
WTF? Where did the GAP store go?
This studio is in lots of architecture books. Stumbled upon in the back blocks of Harajuku (I think)
No prizes for guessing this is Harajuku
Yanaka is a kind of small-town residential area very near Ueno. It retains a community feel.
And another little shop selling florentines.
Perfect florentines in Yanaka.
Yanaka.
Whisky at Quercus in Ikebukuro.
DESIGN FESTA.
Design Festa is a total cultural loop-out.
Score. A SHIBA.
A WHOLE STORE FULL OF SHIBA STUFF.
This matryoshka doll is a THEREMIN.
Asakusa for the festival.
Hiroo. Think bored diplomatic spouses, plastic surgery clinics that speak English, too many dentists and drycleaners.
The ladder doesn't go anywhere.
Bakery
The park opposite National Azabu in Hiroo. It's really nice and you have little idea that you're in the centre of Tokyo.
~$12 for ice chocolate. But oishii!
Signage Fail. Do not park your bikes here?!
Underground bike parking machine near Chiba station.
Neil Barrett's Aoyama temple. Is this a Japan-only brand?
Hot shop interior in Aoyama.
Aoyama.
I bags not being in the overhanging big when the big one strikes.
omotesando area.
