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Yanaka (Tokyo, Japan) house
You won’t find many houses remaining like this in Tokyo, although similar dwellings aren’t out of the question in more rural parts of Japan. If you do find a place like this in Tokyo, you can be sure that you are walking the streets of Yanaka.
Tokyo, Japan
Taken from the Motoazabu (元麻布) area of Tokyo, that’s Mori Tower in the background.
koto (琴) performance at Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社) (Tokyo, Japan)
Today’s random, desktop image comes from my day after New Year’s Day visit to Yasukuni in 2010. I didn’t go to worship the war dead. I went because I was on my way home (via bike) after hearing the emperor’s New Year’s Day speech.
Taiko drumming @ a summer bon odori in Tokyo
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Although Japan’s temples and shrines can sit rather quietly during the winter, tomorrow is Setsubun so if you are in Japan February 3 is a good day to give your local shrine or temple a visit to see if they have something going on.
Tokyo Bay (東京湾) Panorama
Today’s photo is from the pre-Skytree era. If you were to take this same photo today you’d see the Tokyo Skytree on the right side.
not exactly from 市川のアイリンクタウンの展望室
Following a tip I received online I took a train from central Tokyo to the city of Ichikawa to the east of Tokyo. There is a 45-story building in Ichikawa (called I-Line Town) that towers above everything around it and provides a potentially spectacular free view of Tokyo, including the Sky Tree. Unfortunately, the free observation deck is behind thick, hazy glass, and there are numerous things on the other side of the glass that obstruct the otherwise impressive view.
On the day I went it was extremely humid so I couldn’t see much of anything in Tokyo from the 展望室. For best results go in the early morning or at dusk.
The best view was the one shown in today’s photo which was from the glass elevator, not the room with the view, which looked toward a less humid portion of Tokyo (Ichikawa 市川市 actually).
The tip, by the way, came from this photo which I saw on Flickr.