Photographs of Shinjuku at night...
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dangermousieI have all the rest of my Thailand photos uploaded but I still need to resize them.
Meanwhile, ever since PB instituted the new bucketupload feature, it has gotten exponentially easier to upload my camera pics. And so I remembered I never finished my photos of Japan.
So here are the neon lights of Shinjuku, at night. This was one of my favorite evenings in Japan.
Hakone, as I posted way back when, is a picturesque nature area outside of Tokyo where a lot of Japanese like to go to unwind. A lot of Japanese, and us, that is. When we got to the top of the mountain with famous sulphur springs, it was raining, the warm autumn rain. But even better than that? Apparently the food-du-jour at that place are boiled eggs, which are blackened by the sulphur. You buy them in paper bags, and crack them on the tables, leaving the shells there. It tastes awesome.
Sign in the little train back:
And from then on, it's back to Tokyo, and the orderly crowdedness of Shinjuku station.
And then it's night, and next morning we are heading to Kyoto, and we decide to go out and explore the neighborhood. And I fall even more madly in love with Tokyo than I have been before (for the record, Tokyo remains the favorite city I've been to, 27 countries and all).
Even late, it is crowded:
And electrical lights are everywhere, multicolored, a little exotic to me, and very gorgeous.
I fall in love.
Some of the areas of Shinjuku are a little more 'grown-up' than others, but even there it is all orderly, well-lit and clean. It feels safer than in our downtown at night. Little glimpses of the exotically foreign to me world pass me by: businessmen in suits going for drinks (or home), couples looking for a place to eat, potential customers for ladies advertised by discreet posters, an old gentleman with a geisha on his arm, and...probably, ladies who are going to be customers of host clubs like the one which advertises here:
More streets:
The apotheosis of electricity:
We find a restaurant and tuck in. The view is amazing, and I get a bit too mesmerized by reflections:
The meal is a little confusing for foreigners like us:
But we are probably not the first because they brought a little picture guide:
And then back out on the streets:
We walk until the streets clear out, and it's a few oblivious-to-everything couples and us.
And then, next morning, it's bye-bye Tokyo, at least for now, and off we are on a bullet train to Kyoto.
Japan has spoiled me for our train food forever:
But mainly I fixate on the views:
Meanwhile, ever since PB instituted the new bucketupload feature, it has gotten exponentially easier to upload my camera pics. And so I remembered I never finished my photos of Japan.
So here are the neon lights of Shinjuku, at night. This was one of my favorite evenings in Japan.
Hakone, as I posted way back when, is a picturesque nature area outside of Tokyo where a lot of Japanese like to go to unwind. A lot of Japanese, and us, that is. When we got to the top of the mountain with famous sulphur springs, it was raining, the warm autumn rain. But even better than that? Apparently the food-du-jour at that place are boiled eggs, which are blackened by the sulphur. You buy them in paper bags, and crack them on the tables, leaving the shells there. It tastes awesome.
Sign in the little train back:
And from then on, it's back to Tokyo, and the orderly crowdedness of Shinjuku station.
And then it's night, and next morning we are heading to Kyoto, and we decide to go out and explore the neighborhood. And I fall even more madly in love with Tokyo than I have been before (for the record, Tokyo remains the favorite city I've been to, 27 countries and all).
Even late, it is crowded:
And electrical lights are everywhere, multicolored, a little exotic to me, and very gorgeous.
I fall in love.
Some of the areas of Shinjuku are a little more 'grown-up' than others, but even there it is all orderly, well-lit and clean. It feels safer than in our downtown at night. Little glimpses of the exotically foreign to me world pass me by: businessmen in suits going for drinks (or home), couples looking for a place to eat, potential customers for ladies advertised by discreet posters, an old gentleman with a geisha on his arm, and...probably, ladies who are going to be customers of host clubs like the one which advertises here:
More streets:
The apotheosis of electricity:
We find a restaurant and tuck in. The view is amazing, and I get a bit too mesmerized by reflections:
The meal is a little confusing for foreigners like us:
But we are probably not the first because they brought a little picture guide:
And then back out on the streets:
We walk until the streets clear out, and it's a few oblivious-to-everything couples and us.
And then, next morning, it's bye-bye Tokyo, at least for now, and off we are on a bullet train to Kyoto.
Japan has spoiled me for our train food forever:
But mainly I fixate on the views:
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Date: 2008-04-24 10:41 pm (UTC)I really like the one with the guy in the blue/white striped shirt in the foreground, and people laying in the background. ^^ It seems like you can just run around and be idiots in that place. Lol.
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Date: 2008-04-24 10:43 pm (UTC)It totally was. I have to say, if you were a lady so inclined, you'd definitely be spoiled for choice...
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Date: 2008-04-24 10:51 pm (UTC)I am glad Prof. Farnsworth also seems to be excited :)
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Date: 2008-04-24 10:57 pm (UTC)The food in the bento looks good...D: Do you remember what was in it?
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Date: 2008-04-24 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-24 11:00 pm (UTC)OK, now I am getting hungry :)
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Date: 2008-04-24 11:01 pm (UTC)Ahhh, Futurama. I want a rewatch now.
Sometimes I feel like Farnsworth :P Or wish I did :P
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Date: 2008-04-25 12:13 am (UTC)Awesome photos btw :)
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Date: 2008-04-25 12:38 am (UTC)Thanks for posting your pictures, they are awesome!
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Date: 2008-04-25 03:47 am (UTC)I really want to go back!
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Date: 2008-04-25 06:41 pm (UTC)Host Tsukasa
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Date: 2008-04-27 05:20 am (UTC)Re: Host Tsukasa
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