Sayonara Kauai, Aloha Tokyo

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November 20th 2009

Published: December 3rd 2009

A year after spending Thanksgiving Day driving 17 hours through the barren Patagonia landscape, I decided to spend this Thanksgiving week exploring Japan. It felt so good to pack my travel pack once again - the first time since returning from South America. I landed in Tokyo after dark on the 20th and made my way to the Ueno area of the city which is where my couchsurfing host, Kyoko, lived. ... Read Full Entry

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Nabe fiesta

Shrimp...

All with roe on their undersides

Octopus (theses guys were dead I suppose)

Kyoko's place

Sea Cucumber

A young boy celebrating his 3rd or 5th birth year at the shrine

Kyoko and I

Note she is wearing my crazy Bolivian hat

Tiger Prawns

Early morning light on Tokyo

Just outside the Tsukiji markets

Yummm... nabe...

Chiaki and Eric at nabe

Dead center but above the horizon line you can see Mt. Fuji

Although hard to see, this was a great visibility day by Tokyo standards.

Kyoko made me try this DISGUSTING liquor at her nabe party

To each their own! I know you like it Kyoko!

All the fish were packaged and displayed in styrofoam

Another manner in which the fish market struck me as a display of unsustainable practices

Sake sacrifices at the Meiji shrine

Bonzai trees on display at the shrine

I'm a bonzai tree fan

Kyoko was delighted with the ice cream wrapped in a pancake I bought her

It's the least I could do... what a great host.

Tokyo Tower

No idea what these are...

3rd December 2009

The Bernard Brothers
Kyle Bernard and Company

Theatre in foreign countries?
Was Kabuki theatre that much worse than Uruguayan Modern Dance performances? How could it out do the "slight nudity" warning that implied an hour of hairy butts doing jumping jacks and microphone feedback.

4th December 2009

burt
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nice tuna
Glad to see you're off once again! The tuna look bigger than you! But don't fret, you look cuter with your long, sleek, blond hair.

17th December 2009

NSK
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Great photos ...
Great snapshots, Eric. Looks like it was a fun trip.

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