I have always wanted to go to Japan(and see all the nice gadgets,
cars and of course chio bus) and my chance came when I have
a month or so of holidays after graduation. I left Ithaca on
the 13th of July and reached Tokyo on the 14th. I was supposed
to meet De'en in Tokyo on the 16th night so I have 2 days to
spend alone in Tokyo. We did not have any prior iternary but
made plans as we went along. Our final iternary turned out to
be:
15th June Tokyo |
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Bic camera building in
Ginza |
Sony PSX |
A WRX transformers toy |
My camera for --800bux?!? |
Sony TR5A |
Roadside food vendors |
SONY building |
PS2s in the SONY building |
Sony Laptops |
I spent the day walking
around in Ginza and looking at electronics. Not a very eventful
day as you can see from the pictures |
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16th
June Tokyo |
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Various Japanese art pieces |
Various Japanese art pieces |
Various Japanese art pieces |
Various Japanese art pieces |
A nice Kimono |
Some Dolls |
Dolls again |
Very nice Kimono |
Katana |
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Katana |
Katana |
Backyard of the Museum |
Some Samurai Suit |
Samurai Armor |
Another Nice Kimono design |
The Cultural Museum |
The Museum itself |
Samurai walking a dog statue |
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A shrine next to the samurai
statue |
black market |
sushi travellator place where I ate
lunch |
Sony Vaios galore!! |
Capsule shop |
Capsules again! |
Gundams and Gundams |
More Gundam |
Console Games Galore!! |
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Love Hina toys too expensive to buy so I just take
photo
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Guns! BB guns! |
Ahem! |
Shop where people sell their stuff
through rented space |
One of the cabinets |
Akihabara skyline |
My favourite place! LAOX building--
6 stories of cool stuff !! |
Again! |
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I went to Ueno where I
visited the black market and the Tokyo museum. Later, I
went to the electronics mecca of Tokyo, Akihabara where
I discovered the mother lode of electronics, collectables,
anime stuff and the like. |
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17th June
Tokyo |
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Statue of Liberty, 'Golden gate bridge', Tokyo Tower
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State again |
Tokyo infocom building |
G-shock shop |
Toyota Megaweb |
Funky Hand dryer |
Sony Multimedia system |
Using a Vaio in the Sonystyle shop |
Sony multimedia device |
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HA! Me using my dream
laptop, the TR Vaio |
The TR Vaio next to the smallest PC
I've ever seen |
Spidy! |
Watching repeating clips of Spiderman |
Nice Dinosaur Egg seats |
Walking towards Toyota Megaweb |
The humongous Ferris Wheel |
Inside the shopping mall. Looks very
much like Caesars Palace |
Thats me! |
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Caesar's Palace lookalike |
Me and Deen |
Cars stacked up in the Toyota Megaweb |
Cars display area. Press a button
and the car will come to you |
I have no idea what car this is |
Hmmm if only I owned one |
Toyota MRS |
Celica again! |
Supra |
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Altezza |
O Celica.. |
Celica GT4 |
Delorean from BTTF |
Old Collectable cars |
Corvette |
Ancient Celica |
Mustang |
There's a Celica I could barely afford |
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Cars for the lazy |
Cool futuristic car |
Supra. Too bad I couldnt take a photo
inside |
The Tokyo world trade center |
Looking back at the ferris wheel and
MegaWeb |
The world trade center with a huge
saw |
The only chiobu I saw in the entire
Japan.... |
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Joined by De'en, we headed to Odaiba, Tokyo
Bay. We didn't expect to have so much fun at the Toyota
Megaweb there since it wasn't even covered in our Lonely
Planet book. Later, I brought De'en to Akihabara where
I finally found my wide angle lens. |
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18th ~ 19th
June Tokyo |
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Evening before the climb |
Mt. Fuji |
Its me! |
De'en and me taken with my DSC V1
and new wide angle lens |
Mt. Fuji again |
Without wide angle lens |
5th station |
Sky is getting darker |
and darker |
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Well, we could see the
city lights from our location |
Infra-Red shot showing the city lights |
Shack out!! at the 7th station after
climbing for 4 hours ++ |
At the top finally!! |
There I am! |
Sunrise |
a brighter sunrise |
Panoramic |
The crater, to prove that we were
up there |
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Clouds |
De'en and I using the wide angle lens |
Nice View! |
The Tojii up there. |
Use the flash!!! |
Ahh damn I closed my eyes |
See! only I can take good pics with
my camera |
As evident |
in these 2 pictures De'en didn't know how to use the
V1
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Closer look at the crater |
Crater |
Shops at the summit. Wonder how the
owners got up there everyday |
Finally the sun is up! |
Its cold as hell up there |
Giving the shack face! |
A view downwards of all the rest stations |
Better be careful! |
A temple at the summit |
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Finally !! Reached the
5th station again after walking down for 4 hours!!!! |
Mt Fuji yet again... the wide angle
lens scratched my camera!! |
The Mt. Fuji Shrine |
Fujifilm with Mt. Fuji |
Thats me |
The climbing route |
Boy! One of these cost 400 yen!! |
Finally, going to get back to the
hostel for a good rest... |
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We decided to climb mount
Fuji. The trip to the Kawaguchiko took like 1.5 hours and
we still had to take a cab to the 5th station which cost
a whooping 12300 yen!! We began the climb at 7:30 pm and
reached the summit at around 4am. It was too cold up there
so we started to climb down at 5:30, finally reaching the
5th station again at 9:30am. |
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