Tokyo Picture Tour
Take a quick photo tour of some of the highlights from our trip to Tokyo!
On our first day, we took a tour of some of the main sights in Tokyo, starting with the Tokyo Tower, a wannabe Eiffel Tower right near our hotel in the Shiba district:
Next, we headed to the Sensoji Temple, also known as the Asakusa Kannon Temple. You can see the Nakamise (a huge row of shops lined with green leaves) begin behind the temple:
I especially enjoyed the five-tiered pagoda next to the temple:
Then we checked out Ginza, which is the prime shopping district in Tokyo and included the Sony Store. It was so tempting to buy stuff, and Gina did buy a cool MP3 player, but mostly I just liked looking at my future TV:
The next day, we headed to the Imperial Palace, where we took my favorite picture of the trip, in front of the bridge heading to the palace entrance:
On a rainy day, we headed indoors, to see the exhibits on display at the Tokyo National Museum:
In the samurai wing of the museum, it was jarring to see this helmet. Lucas said he wanted Vader modeled off of the samurai, but sheesh! Take away the weird mustache thingy, and you basically have Vader's mask:
We took a day trip to Matsushima, known as one of the three most scenic spots in Japan. Matsushima is about 300 miles north of Tokyo, but it took us less than two hours to get there by bullet train. We took a scenic cruise around the bay, where we saw this famous rock formation, known as Man with Cigarette:
We crossed this bridge to an island next to Matsushima, where we wandered a wooded path to a garden and temple:
There are a lot of great sushi restaurants right next to the Tsukiji fish market, serving the freshest fish available, and it was so good the first time around, we had to come back again (mmm, toro):
On the last day of the trip, we headed to Akihabara's Electric Town, which is basically a cluster of city blocks with nothing but arcades and electronic stores selling cell phones, cameras, televisions...you name it, you'll find it here:
Later that night, we headed to Ginza to see the night lights of Tokyo:
I'm sad that I couldn't enjoy the second half of the trip with Gina and her parents, but Tokyo was a lot of fun, and even though I ended up getting sick after the trip, I miss the food.
Enjoy a more in-depth look at our trip on our Photos page. Lots of great shots by Gina and her father!
On our first day, we took a tour of some of the main sights in Tokyo, starting with the Tokyo Tower, a wannabe Eiffel Tower right near our hotel in the Shiba district:
Next, we headed to the Sensoji Temple, also known as the Asakusa Kannon Temple. You can see the Nakamise (a huge row of shops lined with green leaves) begin behind the temple:
I especially enjoyed the five-tiered pagoda next to the temple:
Then we checked out Ginza, which is the prime shopping district in Tokyo and included the Sony Store. It was so tempting to buy stuff, and Gina did buy a cool MP3 player, but mostly I just liked looking at my future TV:
The next day, we headed to the Imperial Palace, where we took my favorite picture of the trip, in front of the bridge heading to the palace entrance:
On a rainy day, we headed indoors, to see the exhibits on display at the Tokyo National Museum:
In the samurai wing of the museum, it was jarring to see this helmet. Lucas said he wanted Vader modeled off of the samurai, but sheesh! Take away the weird mustache thingy, and you basically have Vader's mask:
We took a day trip to Matsushima, known as one of the three most scenic spots in Japan. Matsushima is about 300 miles north of Tokyo, but it took us less than two hours to get there by bullet train. We took a scenic cruise around the bay, where we saw this famous rock formation, known as Man with Cigarette:
We crossed this bridge to an island next to Matsushima, where we wandered a wooded path to a garden and temple:
There are a lot of great sushi restaurants right next to the Tsukiji fish market, serving the freshest fish available, and it was so good the first time around, we had to come back again (mmm, toro):
On the last day of the trip, we headed to Akihabara's Electric Town, which is basically a cluster of city blocks with nothing but arcades and electronic stores selling cell phones, cameras, televisions...you name it, you'll find it here:
Later that night, we headed to Ginza to see the night lights of Tokyo:
I'm sad that I couldn't enjoy the second half of the trip with Gina and her parents, but Tokyo was a lot of fun, and even though I ended up getting sick after the trip, I miss the food.
Enjoy a more in-depth look at our trip on our Photos page. Lots of great shots by Gina and her father!
posted by Chang Kim at Tuesday, June 28, 2005
6 Comments:
Looks like you had a great time! I like your pictures. "Obligatory Japanese mistranslation" on page 5 made me chuckle.
Hey Dan, can't wait to hear about your trip through Europe! Hope you've kept your Hearts game sharp... :) You were missed at the inaugural SHHNHB.
My trip was wonderful, but I was sorry I missed the first SHHNHB. Your recap is quite thorough (not surprisingly) and I hope I can make the next one! :)
been there, done that; thanks to google earth.
Yeah, Andrew, that's the same. Now you never need to travel again. :)
man, its pretty funny to see some of the pics that you guys have that i also took from the exact same spot. which mp3 player did you get gina? i was sooooo tempted to buy one, but i somehow held-out. kinda regret it now though.. i was also super-tempted to get one of those micro 6 megapixel cameras. alas
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