On the train ride from Nagoya to Tokyo
Layers of mountains
First sighting of Mt. Fuji
Mt. Fuji receding into the distance
Arriving in Tokyo
Looking for dinner in Akasaka
Tokyo Tower
Christmas tree ornaments at Tokyo Tower
A view from Tokyo Tower
Makng a friend at the New Otani garden
Music boxes for sale in the hotel lobby
A kimono for sale
The moat around the Imperial Palace
The Imperial Palace gardens
Kitanomaru Park
A karate tournament at Nippon Budokan, the martial arts hall where the Beatles made their Japan debut
A well-dressed dog (complete with doggie hat with ears!)
A flea market
Some very old phones
Entering Yasakuni Jinja, the shrine to the war dead
Yasakuni Jinja
The miliary museum at Yasakuni Jinja
People counters at a Tokyo subway station
Rickshaws in Asakusa
Plastic pizzas
The Kaminarimon ("Thunder Gate“)
Nakamise shopping arcade
A waving cat store
Lining up in front of Senso-ji (temple)
The five-story pagoda by Senso-ji
Lining up to pray at Senso-ji
A giant sandal on the gate of Senso-ji
Looking up at the giant lamp in the Hozomon (inner gate of Senso-ji)
Waiting for the sushi conveyor belt on the people conveyor belt at Magurobito
Welsh spring onions
In the Roppongi neighborhood
A good name for a bar
Labor Thanksgiving Day in Ginza
A baumkuchen shop in Ginza
A Ginza storefront
In the Sony building
Some expensive fruit at Ginza Sembikiya ($1 = about 100 yen)
A sweets shop
A paper shop
In Ueno Park
Tokyo National Museum
Three reflections of Greg at the Tokyo National Museum
The Shinjuku neighborhood on a rainy night
A shopping arcade in Shinjuku
A plastic dog guarding the plastic food
A shabu shabu dinner
The view from our Tokyo hotel window at dawn
Hunks of frozen tuna at Tsukiji fish market
Packages of uni (sea urchin)
Frozen tuna being cut
The one restaurant where all the Western tourists had been hiding
A dried seafood shop