Insert money

Press button
Take ticket
Exchange for food

Easy done
No Japanese required.

If the machine doesn't have pictures, top left is always the house special

When you are in Ramen street

There's only one thing to eat

This could get interesting

RTH and I are currently involved in an epic 3d construction project.
It's been challenging as well as fun.
One challenge has been getting some parts, as the design calls for metric parts.
Despite Canada allegedly being a metric country.. our neighbors to the South are abig influence and most construction is imperial.

So we had the bright idea of visiting a Japanese hardware store to pick up what we need.

It worked but now we find ourselves with 3 kilos of nuts bolts and other metric fixings in our suitcase.

God knows what security will make of it!!!!

The Sake bar

This bar is on several floors.
One for Sake
One for Schochu and one for fruit liquors

One entry price gets you unlimited drinks.
It was amazing!

This is Christopher

He is awesome. He runs an air b n b experience opening your mind to the world of Sake and Schochu.
For avery reasonable price he meets you at an awesome bar and gives you a brief history of each. And then a tasting experience, which pretty much degenerated into a drink fest.
Put it this way . It was meant to finish at 7:30.
We didn't leave before 10!!!!

Tempyra lunch being cooked

The spiky things are eel spines

Tempura lunch

Its a long way down

More waterways

View from Tokyo skytree

Seen outside a clothing store

RTH says they are probably shoes...but this is Japan and I'm not so sure......

Buying a knife

Is a serious business. Once you've decided on the basic shape, type of handle and steel type, they bring you three near identical ones for you to test the weight and balance.

Japanese knives are gorgeous though

We decided not to eat here

Its karaoke time!!!!

Apart from the occasional bad lyric translation, the most disturbing part is the random videos.

They depict various mundane scenes....and I want to know who picks them?
I mean who gets to decide...The logical song by Supertramp....that needs a guy feeding squirrels in the park.... obviously!!

View from the Buddhist caves

Order on the tablet

And then watch your yakitori being cooked

Same park...

... different bench

Its a hard life

Another day...another park bench.
Inokashiro park

Whilst exploring the caves

They give you this cute little candle holder to guide your way

Buddhist caves

Waygu beef for lunch

Dragon cave

But it is ok......

This large Buddha.

This cute little train takes you to

Still enoshima

Enoshima

Is very very pretty

The view from today's lunch table

Enoshima. About an hour from Tokyo

Shinjuku

Giant lady bugs

In Shinjuku

I call himTerry the terrapin

Yesterday it rained

And I mean rained!!!
Luckily our park has a nice little shelter for watching the sky fall

Stationery lovers dream

This little shop does custom notebooks.
You choose your cover, inserts, paper type and other stuff and they make it for you.
All for around the cost of a standard moleskin notebook

I'm going back for another

Another view of the izakaya in question

Izakaya patio

The fried tofu was a random gift from the next table, who were mildly confused that we didn't want soy sauce with the silken tofu provided as part of the cover charge.
They sent this over and watched me eat it appropriately in their opinion

Roppongi mid town park

Literally 2 minutes walk from our Apartment

Oh this is going to be fun

One of the good points about renting an apartment as opposed to a hotel room is the availability of laundry facilities. Meaning weonly packed a week's worth of clothes

The down side is that said facilities look like this.
And as RTH has just pointed out, we've just put pretty much all the underwear we own in it.

Here's hoping it makes it through intact !!!! 

They have the cutest buses

Gundam

My favourite part of Tokyo

Odaiba. taken as we walked across the rainbow bridge

Its crepe time !!!!

The best part of Harajuku

Plastic food shop

As in a shop that sells plastic food.
Many restaurants have these food models outside so dumb foreigners  have an idea of what they are ordering

Izakaya

This place was our local.last time we came.
Nothing much has changed. A great place for yakitori and a schochu sour

The insanity that is Akihabara

Tokyo skytree

Bento boxes

Are an art form. This one came from Daimaru, a department store under Tokyo station

The Tokyo tower

Peeking out at night

Tokyo's waterways

Tokyo aquarium

For some reason has penguins.
I love this shot because you can't see the water and it looks like the penguin is flying overhead Tokyo

Rappongi Park at night

Decorative carp blowing in the breeze

PENGUINS!!!!