Tokyo Metropolitan Government Offices
13 May 2003 | ||
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| Tallest building in Tokyo... | ||
Irrashaimase!
13 May 2003 | ||
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| Jetlagged, tired, I walked around in the afternoon in Tokyo, waiting for my hotel room to be ready... Went to the great Yodabashi Camera store, but the constant screams of 'Irrashaimase' drove me close to Insanity. I really love Japan, it is always an adventure, but I imagine if you are sick it must be a total nightmare. | ||
Leider total verbaut
13 May 2003 | ||
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| Finally I was back in my hotel room and after a short nap, started loving Japan again. The fascinating thing about Japan is how much attention to detail and beauty is put into the smallest things, such as food and decoration, while in the big picture, function is key and ugliness doesn't matter. So Tokyo is a big messy place, ugly in its buildings and civil composition, but that is its charm. | ||
Looking up
13 May 2003 | ||
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| Into one of Shinjuku's skyscrapers... | ||
Japanese Food
13 May 2003 | ||
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| Up on the 30-something floors.... many different restaurants. God, I love Japanese food.... | ||
Looking Down
13 May 2003 | ||
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| The core of this building is hollow.... | ||
Tokyo City Lights
13 May 2003 | ||
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| What I love is the constant red blinking of the skyscrapers.... | ||
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Offices at night
13 May 2003 | ||
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| And Full Moon | ||
TMGO at full moon
13 May 2003 | ||
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| Nice clean nightphotos. Thanks to a mini-tripod.... | ||
Shinjuku - Kabukicho
13 May 2003 | ||
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| Heart of what some call 'Tokyo's nightlife', but which is mostly a red light district... If you are a westerner, you will get lots of African men come up to you trying to get you into strip-clubs. It's a weird place and gets annoying quickly, but I wanted to take some typical Tokyo night photos so I asked Markus to come along.... | ||
Pachinko Parlours
13 May 2003 | ||
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| I have no idea about the obsession with these.... Mix between a pinball machine and a Galton Board. But the Japanese salarymen sit in long rows at them and play all night.... | ||
Side streets of Kabukicho
13 May 2003 | ||
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| Probably everyone of these signs says 'Massage Parlour' in Japanese. After some women came up to us and used direct words, we decided to leave.... | ||
Elephants not Allowed
13 May 2003 | ||
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| Whatever that means! (Actually it means, you must not allow your elephants to litter). Markus helps me to understand it with an impression of an elephant, while some drunk salaryman next to us was relieving himself right on the street.... Then we left.... Markus for home in Saitama and me for the Prince hotel. | ||
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