tokyo trip may 20-21/06
This was my first trip ever to Tokyo!
First glimpse of Tokyo station. About 15 minutes before this picture was taken I was in the bus, had just woken up, and noticed daylight. I looked out of the window and my first thought was that the street was very clean!
I took the night bus (right) and arrived at 6:20am. It was tough falling asleep. I bought some drugs just in case, and I ended up using them. I probably slept between 3 and 5 hours, but I felt quite ok after it.
A display inside Tokyo station. I liked the French title.
Yodobashi Akiba one of the largest electornics stores in Tokyo, if not the largest.
The store was just opening at 9:30 on a Sat morning. This is minutes before opening with sales people lined up and 2 security guards at the door!
People gathered at the door before opening. It's like Futre Shop on boxing day, exept that was 5:30am.
Some of my wonderful Tokyo friends. We had our own private space in the restaurant.
The food was chunko-nabe, which is a kind of hot pot that sumo wrestlers eat. The restaurant was in Ryogoku which is where the sumo tournement took place.
I used my umbrelly for both sun and rain that same day. It was actualy the first time I used it for sun, it was hotto ne?
It was sumo season and the tournement was going on, but it's too expensive to watch. So we watched them coming in below.
The Edo museum is also in Ryogoku. Edo is the old name of Tokyo, and the museum is about tokyo history. This was a display about a new born child being washed by the midwife. The mother is sitting by the wall.
Still Edo museum. This was an old style house you could go into.
Subaru from the 60's so cuto ne?
I stayed with the Borhani's over night. She is the daughter of my fathers coworker from about 20 years ago. Amazing how connections can be helpful! Before going to Tokyo (may 20-06) I hadn't met an Iranian person since a day before they day I left Vancouver (mar 25-06). I only spoke persian over the phone with my parents. So this was by far the longest period of not speaking Persian (in person) in my life! In Tokyo on the other hand I met lots of Iranians as well as 2 Japanese women who spoke fluent Persian!! Very interesting. One of them has been married to an Iranain for 20 years. He teaches EE at a university in Tokyo. Too bad I don't have their picture, but the other young lady who spoke Japanese is featured 2 pictures below.
African festival in Hibiya park. The guy on the right on the stage is a former Kenyan olympic marathon gold medalist. He was singing in Japanese.
2nd from right is Yukari who's a fluent Farsi speaker. Yuki on the left is her friend from school and my friend form Van. Rie on the right, I've known longest from my current friends in Nihon.
The wierd sculpture, if you can call it that, is the symbol of a beer company just outside of Asakusa station.
Unbeknown to us one of the biggest festivals in Tokyo called 'Sanja Matsuri' was taking place that day in Asakusa.
The guy with tattoos is most likely a member of Japan's mafia: The Yakuza! Honto! Read the last paragraph: http://www.istc.org/sisp/?fx=event&event_id=35916
Some of Tokyo's streets are closed to cars on weekends!! Isn't that great! This one is in Ginza.
I don't know the story with this one!
First glimpse of Tokyo station. About 15 minutes before this picture was taken I was in the bus, had just woken up, and noticed daylight. I looked out of the window and my first thought was that the street was very clean!
I took the night bus (right) and arrived at 6:20am. It was tough falling asleep. I bought some drugs just in case, and I ended up using them. I probably slept between 3 and 5 hours, but I felt quite ok after it.
A display inside Tokyo station. I liked the French title.
Yodobashi Akiba one of the largest electornics stores in Tokyo, if not the largest.
The store was just opening at 9:30 on a Sat morning. This is minutes before opening with sales people lined up and 2 security guards at the door!
People gathered at the door before opening. It's like Futre Shop on boxing day, exept that was 5:30am.
Some of my wonderful Tokyo friends. We had our own private space in the restaurant.
The food was chunko-nabe, which is a kind of hot pot that sumo wrestlers eat. The restaurant was in Ryogoku which is where the sumo tournement took place.
I used my umbrelly for both sun and rain that same day. It was actualy the first time I used it for sun, it was hotto ne?
It was sumo season and the tournement was going on, but it's too expensive to watch. So we watched them coming in below.
The Edo museum is also in Ryogoku. Edo is the old name of Tokyo, and the museum is about tokyo history. This was a display about a new born child being washed by the midwife. The mother is sitting by the wall.
Still Edo museum. This was an old style house you could go into.
Subaru from the 60's so cuto ne?
I stayed with the Borhani's over night. She is the daughter of my fathers coworker from about 20 years ago. Amazing how connections can be helpful! Before going to Tokyo (may 20-06) I hadn't met an Iranian person since a day before they day I left Vancouver (mar 25-06). I only spoke persian over the phone with my parents. So this was by far the longest period of not speaking Persian (in person) in my life! In Tokyo on the other hand I met lots of Iranians as well as 2 Japanese women who spoke fluent Persian!! Very interesting. One of them has been married to an Iranain for 20 years. He teaches EE at a university in Tokyo. Too bad I don't have their picture, but the other young lady who spoke Japanese is featured 2 pictures below.
African festival in Hibiya park. The guy on the right on the stage is a former Kenyan olympic marathon gold medalist. He was singing in Japanese.
2nd from right is Yukari who's a fluent Farsi speaker. Yuki on the left is her friend from school and my friend form Van. Rie on the right, I've known longest from my current friends in Nihon.
The wierd sculpture, if you can call it that, is the symbol of a beer company just outside of Asakusa station.
Unbeknown to us one of the biggest festivals in Tokyo called 'Sanja Matsuri' was taking place that day in Asakusa.
The guy with tattoos is most likely a member of Japan's mafia: The Yakuza! Honto! Read the last paragraph: http://www.istc.org/sisp/?fx=event&event_id=35916
Some of Tokyo's streets are closed to cars on weekends!! Isn't that great! This one is in Ginza.
I don't know the story with this one!
posted by al at 2:56 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Bro!
Good to hear from you! Interesting pics! I had not seen the Nagoya blog either. Can't imagine drinking "sweat"!
See you very soon,
Parto
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