Shinagawa train station: our usual home base
Akihabara "Electric City"
Engrish!
Tokyo Giants play at the Dome
a phallic Buddha
Yasukuni-jinja shrine to those sacrificed at war
in front of a kamikaze plane
Tsukudashima
Kamakura's Engaku-ji Zen temple, founded in 1282
Ogane bell, forged in 1301
Tokei-ji
Kencho-ji Zen temple and Japan's oldest Zen training monastery, founded in 1253 (Kamakura)
a 700 yr old juniper tree
dragon on the ceiling
monks are in meditation
Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu shinto shrine (Kamakura)
barrels of sake
the Pacific ocean, beach at Kamakura
my feet in the Pacific!
an old train, reminiscent of Miyazaki
old houses in Kamakura
Kamakura's Daibutsu "giant" Buddha, dating to 1252. Its protective hall was destroyed by a tsunami in 1498.
Kamakura houses
Yokohama
Yokohama harbour, where Perry's "Black ships" arrived in 1853
Landmark Tower
Nippon-maru ship
Yokohama's chinatown
Ueno park, Tokyo
Tokyo's National Museum
who is this person?
Kawagoe, "little Edo"
Kawagoe's famous kurazukuri clay shophouses, from the Edo era
courtyard of a kurazukuri
inside a kurazukuri
a very steep, narrow strairway
Toki-no-Kane, wooden bell tower to signal fires
site of the Kawagoe castle, Honmaru-goten former residence of the damyo
inner garden of the Honmaru-goten
special slippers for the bathroom!
japanese baseball cheerleaders
Kashiya Yokocho, "confectioner's alley"
view of Shinagawa skyline from our hotel room (Tokyo)
Tokyo Bay, Kasai Rinkai-koen park
view of Tokyo Bay, a typhoon is on its way!
penguins at the Tokyo Sea Life Park
Shinagawa, Sengaku-ji, the temple honouring the "47 ronin"
Shinagawa alley, I am posing "japanese style"
Shinagawa area
japanese vending machines
my favourite japanese dep
Asakusa (Tokyo)
Senso-ji in Asakusa
Asakusa
time to head home
Shinagawa station, waiting for the Narita Express :(
