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| Kenny's last meal with us in St George | Our first apartment, in Oshiage, next to the Skytree. Convenient, near a subway and grocery store. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Walking on the Kittajukken river | There was a decent selection of cooked meats at the convenience stores...though gizzards and tongue is not something I expected. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fishing in a tiny pond, Sumida park | Skytree from below | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This Yakiniku place (grill your own meat) had a lot of cuts that were very exotic for me |   They had a very interesting miniatures exhibit at the Salt and Tobacoo Museum |   At the Senso-ji temple | Down the Nakamise shopping street, lots and lots of little stalls. This was fresh strawberries in mochi dough |   So many bikes are locked up with only flimsy bikes. Theft must be MUCH more common there. | At the Edo Tokyo mueseum |   Lots and lots of school classroom groups | An old neighborhood school. I guess if you're used to it, sitting on the floor like that is okay. |   Apparently this type of shop is the precursor to bookshops in Japan. These posters were very popular. |   A school lunch in Japan, from around 2000 | A typical kitchen in Tokyo, from about the 1960's |   We ate at McDonalds occasionally. Familiar, easy...what's not to like? We did get some odd looks from people when we discarded the buns. | One of the many subway stations we were at. Sometimes very crowded, but overall a good experience. |   This bonsai tree was in the lobby of a department store. Only in Japan would it have been safe there. | Another yakuniku place (grilled meat) |   Skytree | Views from the top of Skytree |   At the Olinas mall area | Pet stores are HUGE here. |   As are dog strollers | Next we went to a emergency preparedness/fire station that basically gave seminars on fire safety, earthquake safety, and first aid. |   This is the earthquake demo...it was very intense, and I wanted it to be over! | At the jazz festival, Kinshi Park |   The kitchen in our apartment. Small but well designed and functional. | The river again... |   Walking around the streets, so many places were so very well kept up |   Books set out for recycling | Before we left, we went up the Kirakira Tachibana Shopping Street, a nice that hadn't been bombed in WWII |   They had many little pocket parks like this |   Baked sweet potatoes are HUGE right now. | A wire sculpture of a cat |  Multi-level bike parking | | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||