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Sensoji's five-story pagoda
One strange thing about the Japanese language is that characters (kanji) usually have multiple readings. Take the kanji for Senso-Ji for example. This famous temple is located in Asakusa (浅草) so when you see the kanji 浅草寺 you think this place must be called Asakusa Tera or Asakusa Dera (tera, 寺, means temple). Actually, it is read Sensoji so not a single character retains its “normal” reading.
Pirate ship in Ashinoko near Hakone, Japan
Nothing on this pirate ship, though, except some tourists.
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 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.
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.
Ume in Ikegami Baien contrasted with a stone lantern