No Name Taito

... have chosen the head drum. Maybe next time.

The fourth of July brought more overcast skies in the morning, so our tentative plans to head up to Mt. Fuji got scrapped. Instead we headed downtown to Tokyo Eki (that’s Tokyo station to you and me Russ, I’m really picking up the local vernacular…) and a quick walk west to the Imperial Palace. You can’t actually get into the palace except for twice a year: New Year’s ...

... pijo japonés, pero de nuevo el precio tirado. Me gusta Japón :D Seguimos viendo exposiciones en el museo, hasta entramos en una capsula espacial. Pobrecitos, menudo retrete tienen que usar allá fuera... contrasta con las joyas con chorritos que tanto bien le estan haciendo a Cesi :D La verdad es que el museo de la ciencia, y la agencia aeroespacial japonesa, es una flipada, Rubén, te morirías viendo esto!! Nos vamos ahora a un centro comercial decorado como ...

... Antartic Observation Vessel. From their we wlked up past the Telecom Centre and the Museum of emerging science and innovation. We left our run a bit late and so couldn't get in toi see much but we were very taken with the revolving globe of screens showing the Earth in rotation. Also the architectural style of the building was quite amazing (Jonelle you will love ...

... easier as the stations are all colour coded and numbered. So you go from S10 to S4 on the Slim Green Line and then transfer to the Purple line and go from Z8 to Z12 etc... believe me its easier than trying to find the Japanese Names for the stations and work it all out that way hehehe. Its also one of the safest places to be in the world.

5-9-07: Ueno, Akihabara, Shinjuku, & Roppongi (Busy Day!) This morning, we woke up ready to explore the city. First stop was Ueno, which appears to be a cultural mecca for Tokyo. Ueno Park reminded me of the Washington D.C. Mall - there were several cultural museums, art museums, science and history museums spread around a large park area with several fountains and temples dispersed between them. We headed to the National Museum which was a gorgeous building set ...

... We headed straight for Ginza in the morning to walk around the streets and just take it all in. Lights, people, showrooms, adverts, clothes, cars, drinks, vending machines, trains passing overhead, there:s just so much that's different. And not just different, better. It's like being in the future, not just 8hrs in the future, but Minority Report in the future, or even Blade Runner. I think pictures will have to tell most of the story ...

... grown out. Even on our incredibly fast bullet train from Nagoya, the city itself seems to go on for ages before we reached our destination: the heart of the beast, Tokyo Station. Population is not usually an issue we focus on in this forum, but in Tokyo it is a fact that we found not just striking, but completely unavoidable. People are as much a feature of this strange urban environment as is water in San Fransisco or mountains in Denver. Our plan was to take just a quick bite ...

got as far as tokyo last night, and I decided I needed to find a place to stay. Stayed here. Gonna stay here again tonight, then take off to northren honshu. Tokyo is great by the way. Played a good game last night with a few kids. We caught the last subway from where we were. Went 3 or 4 stops. Changed ...