The Japanese do a lot with the concrete box. This pair was located in Jingumae (5) one of our favorite neighborhoods.
Interspersed into the myriad developments, neighborhoods and uniform concrete structures are old Edo temples. Tokyo is about juxtaposition.
In Hokkaido.
From the top of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building, Fuji-san in the distance. This town is an insurance nightmare: frequent earthquakes and an active volcano within city limits. This is a slice of what 34million people looks like.
The eye of Shinjuku - we asked a few people who worked at the station to help us find this piece - no one had seen it. There is a lot happening here.
Bruce Lee fixy culture.
Shibuya Station, 5:30pm. My man and I had good travel roll in Tokyo. We were trying to find ourselves on the city atlas, looked up and found ourselves at the busiest pedestrian crossing in the world at rush hour. We thought this hilarious and once we swam our way to shore, could only laugh and shoot photos.
Oldtown Ya-Na-Sen. This area of Tokyo was one of the few to escape the American firebombs of WWII. Baghdad may have been cool too.
I have never been so jetlagged - I didn't even realize until six days later that my circadian rhythms, extreme normally, had been bent. Eben and I arrived in Tokyo at 6pm after a painless 16 hour flight and travelled another 60+ minutes to the New Otani Hotel in the central Tokyo embassy district.
These were alive. See Eben's site for the video. 
There were at least 10 warehouses with 50 rows each and as many sellers per row. Stalls are by license only and once per year the real estate gets resorted so that each vendor gets a fair shot at the preferential locations. I cannot imagine what that day looks like. .
Cat skiing on Chicago Ridge while Eben is with Jeny and Ed in Leadville. Hard conditions, a fun group and beautiful weather. Two weeks until Japan.
