Windshield of the United plane
The train from the airport
A Dutch windmill in the Japanese countryside - of course
The guy who sat across from us on the train slept the entire way and woke up a couple minutes before his stop
This is what greeted us when we exited the station
The first vending machine that we patronized
View from our 7th floor hostel room
The staircase of a neighboring building
Nearby buildings at night
...and during the day
[a bunch of kanji] building
This is what Tokyo looks like before everyone wakes up
Our primary landmark - the Denny's
The new Miyazaki film, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, released a day after we left
The Shazbot hat store
The Toyota Auto Salon
The Toyota Auto Salon's actually pretty tall
The first anime store we saw
Tokyoites ride a lot of bikes
Yep, lots of them
There isn't much space for roads on the ground, so the Japanese get creative
Everything has a mascot (this is a cleaning service I think)
Hey, that's an aesome anime
The anime store's sign
The Sunshine 60
More buildings...suprise surprise
A fighting-game branded soda machine
Fun stairs at the Sunshine 60 complex
A park and office buildings
The World Import Mart - a really big department store
with strange stairs
An architectural model of the Sunshine 60 complex
Yummy plastic food
One of many views from the observatory of the Sunshine 60
Remember this building? I guess it has a heli-pad too
The chairs at the tables in the observatory weren't very comfortable
Plastic food
That tall skinny building is the smokestack for the incinerator
That looks like a business center
The lounge chairs were pretty comfortable though
Isaiah took a lot of pictures too
Just in case you needed a commemorative stamp
We weren't the only ones who were impressed
Just what is this thing?
Of course, a change machine!
This couple wasn't very talkative
Here's the Toyota Auto Salon again
We went here later and it has absolutely everything
The Japanese have an amazing understanding of American politics
Yep, Tokyo hands - 8 floors of strange Japanese stuff
An arcade and a bunch of people
more people standing around
The arcade only takes up the first couple stories...the rest look like a parking garage
Our hostel beds weren't very exciting
Spiral staircase down
and up
The local post office and ATM
The bullet train was pretty fast
Here's the train from the platform
A group of Japanese on a school trip
9th floor of the Kyoto station
Here's the room we stayed at in the Tani House
Aritsugu - in business since the 1500s providing top quality kitchen tools
We couldn't take pictures in the Manga Museum so we had to settle for pictures of the walls in the adjoining cafe
Anpan Man!!
But we could take pictures on the lawn of the Museum
Mmmm - green tea
The sign says “no bicycle parking”
I will!
I'm amazed that people aren't killed by the falling books
Self-explanatory
Mediocre donuts
But awesome plastic donuts
Bicycle parking
I have no idea what this means
Hey, it's Haruhi Suzumiya
Right next to Brownian Coffee of course
I didn't have a map of the neighborhood so I took a picture
This temple is closed, but the rest of the Daitoku-ji complex isn't
Isaiah was there too
A monk makes tea
Outdoors seating at Izusen
The lunch at Izusen was amazing
Isaiah liked it too
Just dessert
I think these were the first Japanese guns or something like thatt
The go board that two famous generals played a game of go on
Scenic
If you put on shoes, you could walk around the rest of the garden
A rock tied to nothing in particular
Then we went to Funaioyama (spelling?) park
The amphitheater at the park
