the eastern capital

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of course my sister and her partner live in tokyo - that's the reason we came to japan in the first place. and seeing them was always going to be the best thing about coming to japan anyway. but there were other things to see and do in tokyo...
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even though i would go so far as to classify myself as a semi-professional tourist, more often than not the actual visiting of tourist sites has me wanting to put a knife in the nearest child. g and i are similar in that respect, and rather than suffer the nausea of looking at temples, we prefer to toss ourselves into the river of 'let's see what happens' and float on down.

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so what did we do in this massive alpha-plus megamegamegalopolis of over 33 million people all crammed into one pulsating, never-ending crowd? well...when i was able to pry gerard away from the japanese equivalent of the $2 shop (literally the 'hundred yen shop', where we spent countless hours, one of us with a dead and bored look in his eye, the other with eyes alight, arms full of copper and aluminium wiring, asking "but mon cheri, what do you mean we don't need a full body lyrca suit or a mini soldering iron?")...we did a few things.

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in a departure from previous blogs, i thought i could create some links to galleries if you're interested in seeing more. so...click on the picture below if you want to check out tokyo parks and gardens.

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click the pic below for tokyo streets.

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click the one below for temples (bleaughh) and tokyo castle

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or finally, click the shot below to see what we got up to when we met up with nicky in tokyo for her birthday!

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