Lost in Asakusa
I’m now lying in my bunk bed at K’s House Tokyo in Asakusa. We just reached Tokyo this morning after an overnight transit flight via Bangkok.
After leaving our luggage at the hostel, the group of us proceeded to take a long walk (longer than it should be due to various detours) to Akihabara. Pictures after the break.
Photos are in chronological order. (More or less.)
Airport to Hostel
Train to Tokyo from Narita Airport
Miscellaneous buildings near our hostel
More miscellaneous buildings
Fallen leaves
Look, it’s sakura!
The source of the fallen leaves
The twilight zone — or when I forgot to set white balance
Train tracks
Camera over shoulder
Camera is heavy
Kitties!
Coffee
Nice boats
Traffic accident tallies for yesterday
Akihabara
Robots in disguise!
Lost hope
Akihabara main street closed to traffic due to holiday
But not many cosplayers as it’s not Sunday
Sofmap; new Yamigawa building to be photoshopped in soon
The Akiba wanderers
Animate — now in orange!
The pathway to heaven
Child abuse
aipoddo
Flesh sin and general decadence abound
The giants of Akiba
I want to catch this in cinemas
Konata is big
It’s 4pm and the sun is setting
Nyo~
Those signs are each about three-floors tall
toki wo kakeru konata
Back in Asakusa
JR Asakusa-bashi Station
Anpanman
Doraemon
Ultraman
Kamen Mask Rider
SD Gundam
Nighttime
Bandai’s headquarters used to be in Asakusa and they still maintain a presence here in the form of two office buildings. We happened to pass by them during our after-dinner stoll. May drop by again later during office hours to look at their showcases.
As for the title of this post: we lost our way for 15 minutes or so during our little night stroll. It was an interesting experience…
Heading to Tsukiji fish market in the morning tomorrow.
December 24th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Sakura and fallen leaves..? Man, I guess global warming is at work here.. (^_^)a
December 24th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Tsukiji’s pretty crazy, dozens of little personal motor carts (forget what they’re called) driving anywhere and everywhere with frozen styrofoam containers. Also pretty cool, some of those fish are gigantic!
December 24th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
now the only thing missing was. where is the food??!!
December 24th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Gawd, I’m officially jealous already.
December 24th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
me wants to go japan….
December 24th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Jealous? I’m reeling…
December 24th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Me wan go japan too
December 24th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
I LOLed at the Nice boat…reminds me of school days -_-
December 24th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
How’s the weather like? O: And you managed to get beds in K’s House? It was fully booked in April (it seems to always be more of less full) so it should be rather up there in terms of backpackers hostels…
Oh Tsukiji fish market is fun! If you’ve got a bit of cash on you, you should try one of the sets over at 大和 (shop front as seen here http://homepage3.nifty.com/tokyoworks/TsukijiTour/102206-w300.jpg). It’s around 3500yen for the best set but it’s worth every cent. Plus, the give you hot tea when you’re waiting in line in the cold. LOL
Looking forward to more photos!!:D
December 24th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
If you happen to get to watch Kara no Kyoukai, mind writing a post about it?