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It’s that time of year again. Travel Essentials is doing their annual photo contest, and I need to submit a winner this time. In 2008 I came in 18th place. For 2009 I received 7th place.
Which of these pictures will give me the best chance? If you have a favorite that I haven’t posted in this entry, let me know.
Speaking of a tower in Tokyo, you can now purchase one of these crazy looking cheeseburgers at Lotteria for only 100 yen per slice of cheese and hamburger patty. I haven’t sampled one, and don’t plan to, but the three or four burgers I have eaten in Japan have all been fantastic. Of course I didn’t eat any of them at Lotteria, McDonald’s, etc. either.
After countless photos from a distance, I finally got close enough to the Tokyo Tower to take some pictures from the base. Tokyo Tower is the place that some tourists spend their first day in Tokyo at, but I didn’t visit it until about my 900th day in the area. I still haven’t gone up the elevator (and don’t plan to either).
The structures that “got in the way” were either part of 心光教院 or 瑠璃光寺. I don’t remember which. Maybe one from each, although I doubt it.
Two creatures which are rather rare to spot in the U.S.A. but which can be found in nearly every body of water in Japan are koi (carp) and kame (turtle). This turtle was balancing precariously on a rock, perhaps posing to try and get in some pictures as the irises were stealing all of the glory on this day.
After getting our fill of Horikiri Shobuen (堀切菖蒲園), we walked across the way for some taiko drumming.
Crank it up and enjoy!
I saw on the news that Tokyo Tower was being lit blue to support Japan’s soccer team during the World Cup. While in Roppongi last night I confirmed that news report with the above photo.
How will the “Samurai Blue” do against Paraguay?
While on our walk in Niiza, we were becoming a bit hungry when we saw the above building in the distance. “Great,” we thought, “a few sushi pieces and we’ll be good to go until lunch.”
When we got closer, we realized that this was no ordinary kaiten sushi place. Not only can you get sushi off of a conveyor belt here, you can also get it to go or get it through the drive through!
Drive-through restaurants aren’t nearly as common in Japan as they are in the U.S.A. Above is a photo of the menu.