Bouncing Red Ball

Mainichi reports that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has sent notices to embassies, hotels and travel companies about a month-long ban on tourists going to the popular Tsukiji fish market, blaming the large number of foreigners for obstructing business.

“Priceless” by Sanctu: Tuna lined up for bidding, a typical scene at the Tsukiji Fish Market.
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With the coming cold months and longer nights in Japan, colorful lights begin to illuminate countless parks, shopping malls and train stations around the country, providing romantic backgrounds for lovers and urging shoppers and commuters that now is the season to spend your well-earned money to buy gifts for your loved ones.
For avid photographers and [...]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a Quicktime VR panorama may be worth ten times more. (Depending on your equipment, it may take up to 10 images or more to stitch a panoramic picture.) So for you out there who long to visit Tokyo but have neither time nor money to do [...]

Autumn is a good time to visit the Ushiku Daibutsu located in the city of Ushiku in Ibaraki, just north of Tokyo. (The photos below were taken in late summer.) The Daibutsu (literally “Big Buddha”) is a giant bronze statue that stands guard over the Jodo Teien Garden and the Jyoen Memorial Park inside the [...]