The first of a few shots from our 29th floor window...
A nice garden we passed on the way to the Tokyo Tower
The Tokyo Tower. Very much like the Eiffel tower, but taller. And red.
A park areaat teh base of the tower
Matt at the Tokyo Tower
A vertical panorama of the tower from one of the bases
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Shots from the main observation deck. The Imperial Palace is off the left side
A panorama starting with part of the route we walked, down the road running up the picture.
The grounds of a hotel, looking a little parched
A temple and graveyard
Panorama starting to look a bit jaunty
end
You can see Tokyo bay in the background
That hotel again
Now that's a junction
Pity there's so much fog/smog, or we'd be able to see Mt. Fuji
Another panorama
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Panorama 3
Panorama 4
A panorama
Guess what? a panorama!
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An unusual building
Wouldn't like to be there at rush hour
A bridge and Tokyo bay
A view from within the tower
Matt and Tokyo
The temple below us
Its that hotel. Note the pad on top for,um, Relocopters?
The temple from ground level
This time from the hotel ground (not our hotel, the one from earlier)
And once more
There's a gate at the end of this path
Very impressive
From the other side with the path running through
A full explanation of this building. I have no idea what it says.
The Tokyo Tower and the temple
The Tokyo Tower at sunset
A nice little park area
A petrol station - note the lack of pumps.
Tokyo Tower with the lights coming on
Once more with tree
Shots from the top of our hotel building - the 39th floor. A panorama, naturally
Long exposure
A temple we passed on the way to the beer museum
That'sa lot of brass
Matt driving. No really.
That's a lot of swiches
Matt sampling a selection of beers
A sculpture
That sculpture plus matt looking sinister
happy with that one
These machines are on every corner. They sell cans of hot coffee.
Picture from a footbridge at about 1am, long exposure
A shot the other way
Once more, with taillights
A small bridge towards the imperial East Gardens
The fountains in, um, Fountain Park
There's also a restaurant
Matt and fountains
An interestin water feature
A curtain of water
The fountain from the other side
That wall of water from one side
An interesting fountain
The moat and a guard building
The gates to the East Gardens
A museum of art donated by the imperial familiy
A map of the East Gardens
This building was home to 100 guards in shifts
A backdrop I think..
A small waterfall
Tea was taken here. This is a very old building which was moved here when teh East gardens were opened
There's a great variety of plants here
That's an impressive wall
Photo from the 38th floor - pity the window is so dirty
and one more
A shot with Tokyo outside and the restaurant inside
A picture of the sushi chefs who prepared our food, blurred by speed. Or Saki.
Lots of fish looking surprised
Some thin fish
An ange;fish doing his line impression
Look out, he's coming straight for us!
Its no use hiding
Tiny very very blue fish
Various fish
Stripey fish convention
Leopardfish?
Clownfish and friends
Translucent fish!
You can actually see their innards
Pointy vertical fish
Stripey worms live here too...
An anenome and some clownfish
Look,you can see their spines...
Lots of fish
This is where the dolphins perform
Lobster
Meeting of Lobsters
A sslightly reclusive lobster
Rays flapping aout
Very bright colours goign on here
This is an Amusing Sufish. He's about the size of an armchair
This fella looks happy enough
A ray not being still enough
Having a bit of a rest
Maybe...penguins?
Its a bit late,most are asleep
This emporor penguin was awake enough to give us a wave
Peering towards the (painted) horizon
Catching a spot of shuteye
Standing with your back to us eh?
He went thattaway
Red fish
A dancing crab
And his vocalist
The amusing sufish says what?
A ray in motion
Swordfish!
A ray mid flap
Shark attack!
A ray banking
dun dun... dun dun
Leopard ray
Many fish
God high ISO mode is noisy.
Nice lighting, shame about the graininess
Extreme close up!
A shoal
Angel fish portrait
high contrast
Peekaboo
Slugfish
Tokyo's Electric Town, with many technological things
You can almost hear the drivers commenting on the ignorant Gaijin standing in the middle of a crossing taking pictures...
We saw someone else take this photo and had to do so too...
Its not just one street either, its a quite large area...
More pengguins!
Areodynamic.
Preening in progress
Its the dolphin show!
I laugh at your long white stick
Ah, the old reversing on your tail trick. Still impressive.
A spot of (blurry) dolpin surfing. They go pretty fast
A bit clearer
Acrobatic
Heading a ball that's quite high up
Once more, but higher
Much frivolity
Fire dolphin 1!
A spot of synchronised swimming
Dolphin centrifuge
On the count of 3, reverse
How a dolphin orders tea...
Hup!
Parallel dolphin
Looks very relaxed...
Multiball!
Off to the handlers for some rewards
