Tsukiji fish market
10/31/05
The only thing to do when you get to Tokyo and wake up jet-lagged at 4 a.m. is to go to the Tsukiji fish market -- and then to get unbelievably good sushi, made from that day's fish, for breakfast.
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Tokyo bizarreness 2
10/26/05
I'm going to assume that these are not selling dog and cat meat. Chukagai, Yokohama.
These utterly mystified me, but turn out to be places to post election posters. Kikuna, Yokohama.
No discernible connection to America. Shinjuku.
Even weirder than these and these. Naka-Meguro.
Doing the impossible, like this establishment. Naka-Meguro.
Specially grown gift fruit. $146 for the canteloupes on the left; $183 for the ones on the right. Ikebukuro.
Panda eating panda-shaped cream puff. Harajuku (where else?).
This sign says: if you drop something on the train tracks, don't get it yourself; get a railroad employee to pick it up. Harajuku.
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Tokyo bizarreness 1
10/24/05
Do not smoke oversized novelty cigarettes. Ebisu.
Reflexology walk. Tsukishima.
San'ya.
Not hungry. Ueno Park.
No smoking by oversized novelty cigarettes. Sangenjaya.
King Kong has a woman in his outstretched hand. Between Sangenjaya and Shimo-Kitazawa.
Cats hate bicycles. Shimo-Kitazawa.
Bubble paper: more environmentally sound than bubble tea. Chukagai, Yokohama.
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Engrish
10/19/05
Tokyo
Yokohama
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Harajuku kids
10/14/05
Harajuku, Tokyo. It's not entirely clear why the oddly dressed kids congregate outside the Meiji Shrine.
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