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| Denny's for breakfast! | Not the usual Dennys' menu | HP in the middle | From my hotel room window, the Hachioji skyline with HP in the middle | |||
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| outer Meiji Shrine entrance in Tokyo | Grant and Kevin | Schoolgirls - on a Saturday morning! | not a clue | inner entrance to the Meiji Shrine | ||
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| Japanese tour group? | mmmmm mawari-zushi - sushi on a conveyer belt! | Tokyo Tower, better than the Eiffel tower :-) | From the lower 150m observation deck, plane out of Narita | skyline of Tokyo | ||
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| in the middle to right rises mountains - if the sky were clearer we'd see Mt Fuji | distant skyscrapers are city of Shinjuku | soccer? | clouds gathering | |||
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| Shinjuku from the upper observation deck | There were many groups of those 3 soccer/??/?? fields | busy roads | Bridge in the middle - that's where our boat tour later started from | |||
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| ?? triangle - a cemetary? | city as far as the eye can see | Looking straight down 150m, kids were jumping up and down on it | Sue dares to put a foot on the glass | Kevin rides a panda! | ||
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| bumper cars for kids! | Sign is on a level section between a couple flights of stairs | "Pocari Sweat" mmmm tasty | performer and his monkey outside Tokyo Tower | |||
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| We haven't seen Bud beer yet in a restaurant...?? | Yahoo (and excite) had billboards | The ship mast in the distance... is really just a wooden mast in the middle of a pier area - not part of a ship :-) | ||||
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| big ship! | closeup | tour boat like the one we took up a river to see Tokyo from the waterfront | Shinjuku at night - WOW | |||
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| Cross between Vegas and Time Square! | Shinjuku station - 2 million people a day | Map of the JR train system, one of the many train systems | ||||
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| Which of the bajillion signs will get you to your train? | ||