Thar be a pirate ship approaching!
Pirate ship in Ashinoko near Hakone, Japan
Nothing on this pirate ship, though, except some tourists.
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Kawasaki Halloween Parade
2009 Kawasaki, Japan Halloween Parade float
Kawasaki is doing their annual Halloween festivities again this year. The spots for parade participants has been filled for a while now (only the first 3,500 to sign up can participate), but you can still go watch. Since Halloween isn’t a holiday in Japan, the parade will take place during the afternoon of October 30.
Full moon over Tokyo
Full moon rises over Shinjuku's Center Building and Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower
Today’s photo of 新宿センタービル and モード学園コクーンタワー was taken from 東京都庁舎 in Shinjuku.
Waiting for my turn with the Omikoshi in front of Ippudo
A month or two before ever sampling Ippudo Ramen, there is this image of me standing in front of it, getting a bit excited apparently as the carriers of the shrine were soon going to be changing.
I don’t know if this is the norm or not, but in the case of the Tenso Jinja Matsuri different groups or organizations took turns carrying the omikoshi around town. I was part of the Nishi-Waseda group (in the blue happi coats).
Back to Ippudo Ramen… I need to get some photos of it up one of these days. With so many food choices in Tokyo, and near Waseda University in particular, I rarely ate at a place more than once or twice. Ippudo was probably the only place I enjoyed a meal more than 10 times.
Japanese plum blossom and Japanese lantern
Ume in Ikegami Baien contrasted with a stone lantern
The other side of the tracks
Skyscrapers across the tracks from the Shinagawa Prince Hotel (品川プリンスホテル) with a shinkansen pulling into Shinagawa Station
When Ryan came back from his school field trip to Cambodia, his bus from the airport dropped everyone off at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel. I went a bit early to welcome him back, even though the skies weren’t very interesting, to see what the views would be like from the top of the Shinagawa Prince Hotel’s 39 floors.
A bullet train is about to enter the Shinagawa Station in today’s photo. You can also see the buildings for the headquarters of Canon MJ (customer service I think) and Mitsubishi Construction. Tokyo Bay is in the distance (although easily reachable on foot from here).