Tokyo -


	Tokyo (2006)

Photos per year (number): 2006 (160)


The shortest walkway ever!	Symbol of Japan	Welcome to Japan...	Immigration counters	Men on their laptops, also connected by phone	On board the Narita Express	And this is just the view of the rail network...	Narita Express, here I come	A middle-aged man reads his manga in the train	Quiet street near my hotel

My basic 10sqm room	Some pretty techy toilet!	Night buzz of Shinjuku	Bright neons of Shinkuju	Bustle of Yasukuni-dori Avenue	Side streets are also very busy	Tokyo the way people imagine it	More lights everywhere	All having a good Saturday night	Baseball practice fields

Another baseball practice place	A singer in Shinkuju	My first meal in Japan!	Recovering from a surely wild night	Here's the place I'm looking for	Empty Tsukiji fish market!	An old man is one of the rare people around	Ginza skyscrapers contrast with the fish market	The empty stalls of Tsukiji	A stall in the fish market

Small shrine near Tsukiji	A great choice of sushi!	Here's my full sushi set!	Preparing the restaurant for lunch time	Full choice of nigiri-sushi	Chef writing some offers on paper	Tsukiji Sushi Sen restaurant	Subway arriving	Ginza buildings next to the Moat of the Imperial Palace	Joggers near the Imperial Palace and Ginza business district

Japanese love to get their picture taken, of course	The classic view of the Nijubashi bridge and Imperial Palace	A group coming for pictures in front of the Imperial Palace	Pine trees and vertical buildings	Kikyo-mon Gate of the Imperial Palace	Modern beauty	A man cycles with his dog	Men resting in the park	Tokyo National Museum	Honkan building front

Jomon Vessel (3000-2000 BC)	Dawn of the Japanese Art	A beautiful statuette	Typical Japanese clay work	Reading about this Important Cultural Property piece	Seated Nikko Basatsu	An ancient Buddha statue	Admiring the Pine Trees by Hasegawa Tohaku	Fascination of the Japanese with this work	Detail of the 4 seasons landscape

Four seasons landscape	Samurai war equipment	Samurai swords	Japanese fashion	Snow and frozen pond	48 bronze statues	Avalokisevara statue	Gallery of Horyuji Treasures	Painter working on the Gallery of Horyuji Treasures	Set to continue painting

Gate of former warlord palace	People returning from Toshogu Shrine	Alley to Toshogu Shrine	Wishes of good fortune	Wishes in all languages	Toshogu Shrine	Deciphering inscriptions	Shinobazu Pond	The ducks rush to bread given out	Ducks in Shinobazu Pond

Benten-do Temple	Altar of Benten-do Temple	Ringing the gong	Enjoying a meal together	Benten-do Temple in the middle of Shinobazu Pond	Shinobazu Pond	An avid photographer	Poverty amidst riches	A poor homeless man eats on the floor	Benten-do Temple in the middle of Shinobazu Pond

Tank full of fugu fish	Fugu fish aquarium in a busy street	Screams from the roller coaster ride	An impressive vertical drop machine	Snoopy Town	Cos-play zoku girls	Fooling around in pretty extreme attire	Groups of cos-play-zoku girls	The gangs, near Harajuku station	Typically short skirts with high knickers or boots

Extravaganza of cos-play-zoku	The girls are very amused, as passer-bys watch	A few men join in as well	Eastern entrance to Meiji Garden	Beautiful dusk light on the tall trees	Offerings in Meiji Shrine Park	Entrance of Meiji Shrine	Inside the Meiji Shrine grounds	Writing wishes on wooden blocks	Placing wishes in Meiji Shrine

Also a notice for foreigners	And so even foreigners join in with wishes	Making wishes inside the shrine	Monks in Meiji Shrine	Beautiful alignment	Skyscraper seen from the Meiji Park	Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office	Shinjuku tall buildings	The round building facing the TMG Towers	The Park Tower

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office Towers	View of Shinjuku	Busy Yasukuni-Don Avenue	View of Sendagaya	Beautiful dawn silhouette of Mount Fuji	Western Tokyo	Western view from the Park Hyatt	TMG towers	TMG towers and western Shunjuku	View towards central Tokyo

Bright lights of Shinjuku	New York Cafe	Washington Hotel's stunning design	Lights of the Washington Hotel	Games in a loud room	Yodobashi store	A busy shopping street in western Shinjuku	My gyoza dinner	Japan rail in the evening	Sleeping or with an electronic gadget

Amusement Park	My local sushi dinner	Japanese dinner at the hotel	About to go to the onsen	The onsen dry room	Japanese bath	Foot massage machine	A whole manga collection on offer	Vitaliy's habu snake	Crowds at Shin-Yokohama station

Shinkansen platter	A small kiosk	A typical Japanese girl	Rail station crowd and shops	Young girl enjoying a free ride	Here comes our shinkansen	First view of Mount Fuji	The lady points out the sea	Mount Fuji towers over Central Honshu	Sleeping in the Shinkansen