To do the fashion in Tokyo any sort of justice, it has to be done separately… but here are some other impressions of this amazing city:
Comic books suitable for “all age” (sic), about schoolgirls armed with machine guns? Oh, sure.
A shop entirely filled with identical teddybears? (yes, we checked)
Tiny restaurants…
with awesome food
Plastic food is everywhere. And is that not one fabulous stack of star-shaped “pan cake”? *
Vending machines… see how the top half have a dark blue label underneath and the lower half red? The red ones are hot drinks, and are literally almost boiling!
The loveliest miniature gardens
As well as miniature doorways everywhere
A crazy electrical wiring system
Tea latte, anyone? Yes that is a tea-bag bobbin’ about in the foam there… I think of myself as a tea connoisseur but this was a first for me.
An urban canvas
Must be the skinniest building, ever
I really like that biking is so well catered to, possibly because car parking spaces are minimal… very civilised and a green win for Tokyo. The lower picture shows the way to the bicycle parking lot for the underground railway, how awesome is that?
(* “plastic food” picture taken by Lisa… thank you for letting me use it here!)
COOL! Tokyo has some weird things but it looks like an amazing place to visit. Love the machine gun welding school girls… and grateful none of my students were like that! 😉
Fascinating!! Though the food does not appeal to this vegetarian. 😀
Tokyo looks a fascinating place. Thank you for hopping over to my blog and leaving a comment.
I would love to visit Tokyo! Great photos.
So many different things to see. I can just imagine wanting to take pictures at every step 🙂
Love the identical teddy bears!
What is that in the pic above the bicycle parking pic? Looks like a silver cat in an emergency call box. A shrine?
Love the miniature garden. An oasis of green in a bustling city! Wow. makes my city of less than 100,000 seem calm (and it's the biggest city I've ever lived in!)
I regularly visit a blog written by an American teaching English in Japan. She often writes about the curious things sold in vending machines…to include underwear?! Her blog if you're interested is Mishaps and Miracles.
MINIATURE! Normal size (ahem!) you mean! You and your family are obviously giant sized! LOLZ
For the photos, I use this http://instagr.am/ … it's a good application that will let you colour your photos after you take them, and give them that vintagey look!
It makes iphone/phone photos look SO much better!
xoxoxo
We love the photos especially Tim.
I will miss Tokyo 🙁 thank you for taking me on the trip of a life time i will never forget!
I visited Tokyo for the first time last month and have to say, it was equally confusing and fascinating… 😀 I loved it a lot but had the devil of a time finding the places I wanted to go to and not being able to read pretty much any of the signs. I also loved the vending machines (hot tea in bottles! amazing! ;).
Your pictures are great and seeing them made me miss Tokyo even more! I love Japan and I can't wait to go back!