Shibuya Crossing. Mental.
Tokyo at night
Experiences we never expected to have: driving around Tokyo after dark in an old Mercedes convertible.
Do-it-yourself okonomiyaki (Japanese pancakes) in Asakusa.
Tokyoites often leave their bicycles unlocked. What locks they do use are so flimsy they would never deter any self-respecting North American thief.
Senso-Ji and surrounding market. Located in Asakusa, it is Tokyo’s oldest Buddhist temple. The two fellows on the right-hand side of the second-last row are statues of mischievous raccoon-dogs, in the small shrine built to appease them and stop them running rampant in the temple grounds. Such an approach may be of interest to folks in Toronto…
Tokyo showing its sci-fi styling. I wish there were some jets of flame and flying cars to really pull things together.
Art installations from the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi. Top to bottom: 1000 Legs by Kobayashi Fumiko Eurasia (on wall) and Inujima Project (on floor), by Yanagi Yukimori. Eurasia is made of ant farms. Model of the SS Go For Future, by Endo Ichiro; Ichiro is apparently building a sea-worthy version of this scale model.
To begin with, Susan has a cold. Nothing dramatic; just standard upper respiratory stuff, and probably to be expected after changing twelve hours of time zone in the space of a week. So we decided not to set an alarm to go to the fish market at 5am, but thought we might go if we woke up at the right hour. We did wake up shortly after four, but by the time we got down to the waterfront at 5:15, all of the tickets to observe the tuna auction were gone. Allegedly, the rest of the fish market
Architecture of the National Art Centre Tokyo. Very cool.