Kamiya Bar

The Kamiya Bar, established in 1880, is the oldest Western style bar in Tokyo...think alot of old men and women. If you order anything but the medium or large beer, you just don't fit in.

Calpis

Would you like a drink of Calpis?

The Golden Turd

The Flamme d'Or of the Asahi Building

Clap Bar

I wonder what you get if you go in?

Classical Music

I would be falling asleep to classical music from the in-room stereo...except for Lamont's snoring in the next bed over.

Meine Meinung

A short clip of the band Meine Meinung at the south entrance of Shinjuku Station.

See websites for more information on the band:

http://www.meimei-music.com/home.htm

http://www.meimei-music.com/

Shinjuku Station, the busiest train station in the world

Shinjuku Station, people coming from the Tokyo Metropolitan Offices

Communters coming out of the South Entrance of the JR Line

Shinjuku Station South Entrance at rush hour

Shinjuku Stations South Entrance at 5PM.

Krispy Kreme in Japan, still has a line around the block at 5PM

In Tokyo, it's starting to look alot like Christmas

It's 7AM, do you have your gin and tonic?

It;s 7AM and the party is still going at Tokyo Loose.

Tokyu Hands

The Greatest Chain Store in the world.

Those drugs are MINE!

Those drugs are mine at MINE DRUG.

Newly Renovated Asakusa Kannon

The last time I was in Tokyo, this part of the temple complex was covered in wooden construction boards.

Yeah, I work with computers!

The keyboard was broken before I got to it and broke it more.

Snow

While I was waiting in line at the Metro for a commuter bus during a snow storm, two girls started kissing and making out in front of a long line of commuters.

I love snow.

First Snow

At the sight of first snow I am always reminded of a story from back when I was in Catholic grade school.

One day, we were all sitting in class in our uniforms and it started to snow...the first snow of that winter. All of us started to look out the window at the falling snow.

Our teacher, a nun, yelled at us to stop looking at the snow. She said, we shouldn't be looking at the snow. It's not like we haven't seen snow before, she said. In fact, she said the only person who should be excited to see the snow was a foreign student in our class from some unknown South Pacific island who had never seen snow.

So every time I see the first snowfall I think back to a nun yelling at me that I shouldn't be excited to look at the snow.