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Bikes are everywhere in Japan, which means pedestrians do a lot of ducking
Date: 07/31/2008
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At Home Caffe - sings of the new Japanese culture
Date: 08/01/2008
This place is where guys go to get some validation from yonug girls dressed as maids or traditional Japanese wives in kimonos. They basically get treated like the head of the household with the girls acting like they're happy to see them and playing silly games with them
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Moat of the imperial palace
Date: 08/01/2008
Moats....defense features one day, nice park the other....
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Guard house for the imperial palace
Date: 08/02/2008
Guard house for the imperial palace
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The grand road in front of the imperial palace - which felt more like crossing a desert in the heat of Tokyo summer
Date: 08/02/2008
The grand road in front of the imperial palace - which felt more like crossing a desert in the heat of Tokyo summer
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Daryl really liked Hofbrau when we were in Germany two years go.... so this was a nice surprize
Date: 08/01/2008
Daryl really liked Hofbrau when we were in Germany two years go.... so this was a nice surprize
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Daryl finished all the sushi....
Date: 08/01/2008
Our first shushi restaurant - the kind where they have the sushi going around on a belt and you pick up what you want.
Daryl definitely had the largest stack of plates at the end
Daryl definitely had the largest stack of plates at the end
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The light from this building was so strong it actually illuminated the previous pics
Date: 08/14/2008
toyland in Ginza shopping district
toyland in Ginza shopping district
Date: 08/14/2008
toyland in Ginza shopping district
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Who would have thought?
Date: 08/14/2008
We were walking around in Ginza - the really high end shopping districs - looking for food; which is usually a frustrating experience - when Daryl saw the sign
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Date: 08/14/2008
The place was really authentically decorated and the waitresses (Japanese) were wearing traditional romanian garmetns.
Turns out the cook - although Japanese - lived in Brasov for a while. Too bad both his Romanian and his English were so limited this is all I could find out
Turns out the cook - although Japanese - lived in Brasov for a while. Too bad both his Romanian and his English were so limited this is all I could find out
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Do you know how much this costs... a paltry $700
Date: 08/14/2008
Japanese are famous for wanting to find unusual gifts and have started a trend of very expensive fruits in different shapes...
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Bridal outfits - if I can't take them home at least I can take a picture
Date: 08/14/2008
