The first half of Kawagoe
(12 January 2009)
Inside a store selling preserved food









tasting






















daruma-san

Inside a nuts and beans store











walking towards Kitain Temple, about 15-20 mins away


dango



surname of the residents





a shrine beside Kitain Temple








there was some sort of fair at the temple grounds


a variety of daruma-san



prayer arrows


the queue to get into the temple










a worker with his cart


sweets




coated bananas


dango


buttered potatoes

some sort of warm, barley-like alcoholic drink.

bonsai


spot the kimono

teppanyaki chicken

got some to cure the hunger





takoyaki

yakisoba

masks

another shot of the coated bananas. too s.w.e.e.t.

some sort of mini pancake with red-bean filling

some kind of omelette

heading back to the train station





on the corner

back on the shopping street




inside an arcade








have a break, grab a KitKat



more spot the kimonos



Just outside the station


inside the station


last look at the convenience store at the station before heading down to the platform



seated in the train

Back in Tokyo, about an hour later. Got off at Ikebukuro station. Yakiniku for dinner…










interior of the restaurant


exterior of the restaurant




‘i’m not shooting you’

Sunshine City – a large shopping in Ikebukuro

Brad Pitt for Softbank, at the train station platform

back in Shinjuku, looking straight at the station

on the right

on the left

inside the Shinjuku station

heading back to the apartment


a detour on the right






a ramen shop

Back onto the main road. The soba shop we frequented.


Lawson, not far from the apartment

6 degrees @ 21:11



choices








security at the entrance to the apartment

Called it a night
The following day