The typical Japanese restaurant. You sit in a little booth. Since they live in very small homes, they almost always go out to meet friends. Therefor this setting is a home away from home. Not like the european restaurants where we go out as much for the social part of it.
I love the pots in the streets. Here in front of the Laundromat someone is growing their tomatoes and flowers.
We saw many different types of homes in tokyo. Here the tin box. In Japan they are not so interested in the view, perhaps because it is often not too interesting when you live so close. Almost got a little claustrophobic for me though. When you spend so much time under ground in the metro and stations, and then inside in gigantic shopping malls with no windows and finally back home with frosted glass on the windows.
Small homemade signs on the trees in a street in Tokyo. Wonder what it says.
Delicious sushi. I will miss that.
Really cool art museum on the 45th floor in Shinjuku. I can recommend.
We visited the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Shinjuku to view Tokyo from the 45th floor. The 7th tallest building in Japan with 48 stories and 243 m. The tallest being the Tokyo Sky Tree with its 634 m and 32 floors.
Tokyo from above, city as far as the eye can reach.
Here you see the result of very high land prices and taxes. People are forced to sell their land and the city densifies. Houses with just 30cm between them some places.
One of the summer festivals. People gather wearing the Jukata ( Summer kimono) to danse, eat and enjoy themselves. We danced along and had a great night.
The Jukata is for everyone, young as old. Women and men.
Hiromi to the right, who we stayed with in Tokyo, and her friend to the left.
The summer festival lamps glowing in the dark. People in colorful Jukatas dancing to the rhythms of the drums coming from the tower in the center.
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