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More than a year ago I promised some photos from the Momoteshiki held at Meiji Jingu on Seijin No Hi. The dress was amazing as was their skill. Hopefully it won’t be another year before I break out another of these photos.
On a bike ride around the Yanaka area of Tokyo I spotted this old style building. Yanaka was spared the fire bombings of WW2 so you do sometimes see buildings more than 60 years old, a rarity in Tokyo. I didn’t know if this was built before the war or just made to look old. Given the concrete base I figured the latter.
However, thanks to the sign on the front (吉田屋酒店) and with a little internet research, it turns out that this Yoshida Liquor Store was built in Yanaka in Meiji Jidai, Year 43 (1910). In the 1980s it was moved to its present location. You can check it out in person at this address: 〒110-0002 東京都 台東区 上野桜木2-10-6.
Although this looked and felt like a storm would burst at any second, it didn’t. This was fortunate as I was on my bike and not close to home. I was in Akihabara (秋葉原), a part of Tokyo famous for its electronics.
Connected, via a walkway, to the Osaki Station on the Yamanote Line is Osaki New City, a shopping mall with loads of really inexpensive restaurants. Today’s photo is of the atrium in the center of the place. The two or three times we were there the place was empty (by Tokyo standards). Maybe that is why the restaurants are so cheap.
I took today’s photo of a Japanese man observing the construction of the Tokyo Sky Tree back in early May of 2010. I was near Ikebukuro, approaching home, after a long day of biking around Tokyo. Since then the Sky Tree has grown by more than 100 meters.
Christmas is different no matter where you go in the world. The Japanese Christmas shares little in common with Christmas elsewhere. Where else will you find the ultimate Christmas decoration to be a giant chandelier?
Today’s photo is from Ebisu Garden Place. If you look closely at the bottom of the photo (perhaps after making it larger by clicking on it), you’ll see a family getting their picture taken in front of the Baccarat Chandelier. I wonder if they used it as their nengajo (年賀状 or New Year’s Card)?