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- Train on the Nanbu line I take daily with the main Shimokodanaka Fujitsu building behind it
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- A look down Shinjuku’s infamous Kabukicho, an entertainment and red-light district
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- Burger King’s kuro (black) burger; it tastes better than it looks, even the black cheese
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- An izakaya we named SUPPA KURABU after it’s large mechatronic crab
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- Geriatric hula dancing on Enoshima island
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- A portable shrined called mikoshi being prepared for a festival
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- One of the many (and minor) festivals happening in Japan, this one at Ueno park
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- A hearty ramen lunch
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- One of the stranger places I ended up at – the Moomin cafe
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- Large moomin plush toys to keep you company
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- Neatly packed fruit, the peaches are very large, very delicious and very expensive
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- The infamous poisonous fugu fish – definetely on the list of things to try while in Japan
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- A not ideal treatement of a Siamese fighting fish
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- Example dinner, the prices are lowered by as much as 40% in the evening on perishable dishes – this was 4€
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- Japanese police use toy cars
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- So far the best looking tree I’ve seen, though it’s technically too large to be a bonsai
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- Brunch at a very traditional cafe serving excellent coffee
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- An example of Japanese superstition – the water bottles are supposed to keep cats from peeing on stuff because cats don’t like water (doesn’t work if it’s in a bottle!)
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- Crazy foreigners taking photos of every strange thing they see
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- I’m not sure what this is but we saw it at a sake museum
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- Yanaka Ginza – a very traditional shopping street in the Yanaka region of Tokyo which was not destroyed by earthquakes or WW2
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- A bronze Buddha statue, Tennō-ji, Yanaka Cemetary
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- A Japanese crow, wikipedia says they aren’t but they sure seem to be a lot larger than the crows back home!
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- The unimpressive grave of the last of the Tokugawa shoguns
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- A pagoda inside Ueno Zoo
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- I enjoy visiting zoos because I can see new and strange creatures. This is the Japanese Giant Salamander (1.5m in length)
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- Another strange animal – a shoebill stork
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- Festival stands at Ueno Park with delicious festival food
Slovenian abroad 