06 March 2004 - 09 March 2004

Last Updated: 21/09/04


This year, my birthday present from my parents was a night at the InterContinental Keio Plaza Hotel in Tokyo!  The same hotel we stayed in (but couldn't appreciate) during orientation.  The hotel was amazing, and Tokyo was overwhelming.  I've narrowed down the photos as much as I can, ...  I did take over 300, though, so you should count yourselves lucky!

 


  
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To get you in the mood:  Some Tokyo architecture
The metropolitan Government Buildings (top left),
the Keio Plaza (top right) and Tom and I, at around
5am! 		 
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Me! 

Looking pleased as punch.  Look Mummy,  Daddy, I'm in da big city.

 
 Pigeons

 
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Imperial Palace gate

  

  Outside the walls of the Imperial Palace

 
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 Tom, Duck and Harry

It made us laugh, ok?!

 
 Tom tries to nick off with a bit of palace wall

 
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Oh dear Tom! 

A cheesy grin with a typical Tokyo background

 

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Tokyo Tom

 

admire the sky - back in Fukui it was snowing!

Street performer with a monkey

 

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View from hotel room

 

If you have a good monitor and good eyesight, you may just

be able to see Mt Fuji in the bottom right hand picture!

The Pringle-moon 

(see the diary)

 
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WOW!  Cocktails. 

Now that's what we like to see!

Read Closely...

 
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...EXECUTIVE FLOOR...

...SEE?!...

 
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Morning view of Fuji-san from the hotel window

Metropolitan Government Building again

 
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View from the Metropolitan Government Building

 View straight down from Metropolitan Government

Building

look closely.  The blue huts are homeless people's equivalent

to the cardboard box.  Homelessness is an increasing

problem in Japan.

 
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Point-to-point antennas on the side of the MGB

Huge pendulum clock in the Shinjuku NS Building

 
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Beer Break 

Rainbow Bridge

 
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An interesting building in Odaiba

The Museum of Science and Innovation, Odaiba

 
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Delly

note the table

Tommy

note the table

 
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This was a very cool cafe at the science museum.

 

The tables were designed and arranged to give an

optical illusion, which was quite effective.

A real-time LED spherical representation of the Earth.


Very cool.

 
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Museum at sunset

Weird shopping centre

 
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Night-life Shinjuku

 

 

 

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