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We walked from Shinagawa Station to Odaiba and back last week. The clouds threatened rain the entire time, but we only had a few drops fall on us on the way back.
The top picture is similar to one I took at night back in January.
Interrupting my Kofu adventures for a brief return to the 100 views of the Tokyo Tower, the top photo is from Shinjuku. The lights in the lower left are from Jingu Stadium where the Swallows were probably having a night game. The tall building just to the right of the tower is the Tokyo Midtown Tower, which isn’t as close to the Tokyo Tower as this photo makes it appear.
This second picture of the Tokyo Tower was taken from near the Midtown Tower. The location was Roppongi’s Mori Tower.
I took today’s photo from the outside perch of the restaurant on the top floor of Joypolis. This is the Tokyo Bay with the Rainbow Bridge connecting my location at the time (Odaiba お台場) with the main part of Tokyo. Tokyo Tower is to the right.
This is one of those scenes that my LX3 does a much better job with than my TZ7. I tried this shot with both cameras and varying exposure lengths. The TZ7 couldn’t capture it as well with an exposure of 1 second or less. I needed that LX3’s 5-second exposure and better sensor.
This picture would probably look a whole lot better if my blog had a black background. Click on the image for a bigger and better view.
We took our Nikko trip while the kids were on a school trip for three nights skiing in Nagano Ken. I went to pick them up on Friday night at TIS, and this was the view. You can see their buses just pulling in on the left.
Happy New Year everyone. We rang in the 2010 New Year at the 22nd annual countdown at Zojoji (増上寺), complete with Tokyo Tower in the background, ringing of the temple bell 108 times, and the releasing of thousands of balloons.
I’ll post some more photos and descriptions of the evening’s events in a future entry. For now I’ll leave you with a video of a little piece of the evening.
Continuing the series… Ellie and I sat at this window for a while enjoying the view from near the top of the Mori Tower in Roppongi.
From the Hiroo (広尾) shopping arcade…
Not the real thing, of course, but a pretty large replica of the Tokyo Tower can be seen inside the Asahi TV Studio.