I never tire of seeing Mt. Fuji.

Posted on June 1st, 2010 under Japan. Tags: enoshima, mt. fuji. Comments: 2

The above is an actual promotion the Tokyo Metro is currently running for June. The poster says, “beer drinking season has arrived.” The ad goes on to show where the various beer gardens are in Tokyo.

Usually ads, in any country, for beer gardens show happy people enjoying a cold, tall beer. If you look closely at the above photo (clicking on it will give you are larger view), you’ll notice this ad goes a bit beyond the normal. I’ve blown up one part of the image below to show you what I mean.

People passed out (face up AND face down), a guy who has had so much to drink that he thinks he is an angel, and a beer drinking monkey?!?!

Posted on June 1st, 2010 under Japan. Tags: beer, signs. Comments: 2

I took today’s photo from a moving train on the way to Nikko back in February. The structure being built out the window was the Tokyo Sky Tree, which was less than 300 meters high at the time. Now it is up to almost 400 meters. When finished the Tokyo Sky Tree will be 634 meters high, surpassing the next tallest artificial structure in Japan by almost 300 meters.

Posted on May 31st, 2010 under Japan. Tags: sky tree, Tokyo. Comments Off on Tokyo Sky Tree (東京スカイツリー)

One of many moss-covered statues that can be found at Tokeiji (東慶寺) in Kamakura.

Posted on May 30th, 2010 under Japan. Tags: kamakura, tokeiji. Comments Off on You look good in green

Perhaps today’s picture works better with this quote than the photos I originally included with it. The train line is the Toden Arakawa Sen. The corner I took it from was Meiji Dori and Shin Mejiro Dori. The skyscraper in the distance is Sunshine 60 in Ikebukuro, once the tallest building in Japan.

Posted on May 29th, 2010 under Japan. Tags: ikebukuro, night photography, shitamachi, Tokyo, trains. Comments Off on Sunshine City