(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
One Comment to Tokyo, Winter 2008 – Day 18 (second half).