Tokyo

Hey, I added a new page over on the right side about homestay drawings.  You should go look there too! ——->

This is day four in Tokyo, and it’s been a lot of fun!!  Tomorrow, I leave for…Yamanashi…I think.  I’m going to see Mt. Fuji up close, so that should be cool.

Here’s some Tokyo pictures (in a different format than the other blog entries):

1.  That black spot way in the background is Mt. Fuji.  I took this out the window of the plane on the way to Tokyo, as evidenced by the plane wing.

2.  A closer shot of Mt. Fuji.

3.  We went to the Ghibli Museum, and this is the bus we rode.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t take pictures in the museum.   But it was super cool!!  They had original paintings and storyboards done by Miyazaki, and original backgrounds and cells from the movies.  They also had this really cool room about animation, where they had a 3 dimentional zoetrope.

4.  Akihabara.  A geek’s paradise.

5.  We went to a Maid Cafe in Akihabara.  That was super fun!!  I couldn’t take pictures inside, so here’s a picture of me standing out front.

6.  I told the people I’m staying with that I like Neon Genesis Evangelion, so they took a picture of me with everything they found that had to do with the show.  Cause it’s everywhere here.  So here’s me with Eva Unit 01 and Asuka dolls.

7.  Hey, it’s a catgirl!

8.  After Akihabara, we went to Tokyo tower.  I was kind of hoping something awesome would happen like in Magic Knights Rayearth where I’d get sucked through the floor and be sent to a crazy world with giant robots and magic swords.  But alas, no such luck.

9.  This was the line to get on the elevator up to the observatory.  It was long.  By the time I took this picture, we were already half-way through.

10.  A view from Tokyo tower.  It was a foggy day, so you couldn’t see very far, which made me kind of sad.  It was still an amazing view though.

11.  Looking down through a window in the floor.

12.  This is the main gate of Asakusa Temple.  Holycrap were there a ton of people.

13.  This was one of the cieling panels in the temple.  The temple was absolutely gorgeous.

14.  A five story pagoda at the temple.

15.  I saw a lizard yesterday when we got back from the temple.  It was cute.

So, that’s Tokyo in a nutshell.  There’s so much more here that I wish I could have seen, but that’s ok, cause I got to see a ton.  It’s a huge city, so it’s impossible to see it all in the short time I’m here.  I guess I’ll just have to come back!

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