Tokyo Street Peeps

More photos from our not so recent trip to Tokyo.


Street drummer outside of Harajuku station.



The bridge behind the Harajuku station. Every weekend, teenagers from all over the Tokyo urban area come to show off their latest goth/princess/??? costumes. Murph the Gwampire would fit in perfectly here.




Sake Labels.



This is the funniest part of taking photos in Tokyo. Every time you see something interesting, compose a shot and take a photo, you turn around and see at least 2 other people with cameras with the same idea.


Searching for the meaning of life.


Outside of the Meiji Jingu Shrine.

Shibuya Crossing

The famous Shibuya crossing in Tokyo. According to the omnipotent wikipedia, over 2 million pass through the Shibuya station every day. Most of those pass through the scramble intersection. Plenty of action here, a great place to people watch.





Note the Starbucks on the corner, a great place to enjoy an overpriced coffee and watch the human river.

Street performers abound...



Playing around with some slow shutter speed panning shots, trying to capture rush hour.

Beer Love

The Ebisu Garden Place in Tokyo, home of the Yebisu Beer Museum. Inside the museum there is a great timeline of the history of beer brewing in Japan, and a tasting lounge.




True Love.


It wouldn't fit in my backpack so we had to drink it all on the spot.

Random Tokyo Sights

More Tokyo

It would probably take 2 years to see all of Tokyo, we tried to see it in 8 hours. Below are some highlights...

The Asahi Beer headquarters building in Tokyo. Look closely and you will see that the building resembles a giant mug of beer with a foamy head. This building makes me thirsty!

Making homemade soba noodles at a restaurant in Asakusa. I love eating these noodles, and it is considered polite to slurp the noodles noisily. While eating soba with Aya and her family for lunch at this restaurant, I felt like Tom Selleck in this scene from Mr. Baseball, except my mustache isn't as big.

The busy main shopping arcade at Asakusa, where one can buy any kind of souvenir imaginable.

We looked around for a "Cafe Bart", but couldn't find one.

Entering a shrine in the middle of the Shinjuku area near our hotel. It was interesting to see how these simple shrines were located in the middle of such busy urban areas.

The prayer board at the shrine, you can buy a piece of wood and write your prayer or wish on it.

Ringing the bell.

Tokyo skyline view from the hotel room.

First official dinner in Japan, we dined on some Yakitori! Very tasty skewered chicken, you can order any chicken part you can think of, (skin, heart, wing, etc.) they all tasted great.

Nikujaga, a very tasty stew of potatoes, pork, carrot and onion.

Shibuya Station street crossing. This was in the morning, not the busiest time for this intersection, but it was still madness. I hung out of the car window to snap this photo.

Flew into Narita Airport at about 6pm and took a van into the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, in the middle of the madness, late Sunday night. Tokyo is nonstop action and does not slow down, even on a Sunday night. Kind of like the strip at las vegas, but stretching in all directions for miles and miles, but with more neon and many more karaoke bars.

View from the hotel room.

The main strip.

Pachinko! parlor.

Jet lag took its toll and I couldn't make it back to the hotel, so I snuck in a a quick catnap in the town square.