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Japan Tour, Starting from the Capital...

MCmclaud ·32 photographs ·25 Jun 2009 – 3 Jul 2009 ·9 days
Where
Tokyo (Stop One)
When
25 Jun 2009 – 3 Jul 2009
9 days · trip of 2009
Who
Claudio Mortarotti · @mclaud · ROMA
How
Travel diary
The story

After saying goodbye to Beijing, a China Airlines plane took us to another new country... Japan, where we'll stay for 9 days, moving from one destination to the next aboard the famous Japanese high-speed trains, the "Shinkansen".

Our tour began right in the capital, Tokyo!!!

Right away we discover a magnificent city, full of lights, of "peculiar" people, and above all we discover that the Japanese love Italy; in fact they try to imitate it a lot, including in food - yes, here we tasted excellent first courses such as pasta alla carbonara.

We roamed the city far and wide, aboard the many JR and metro trains that connect every part of the city, without ever getting lost.

Thanks also to the helpfulness and kindness of the people we dealt with when asking for information.

From Tokyo we then continued to Kyoto... (see stop 2)

The journey's photographs

32 photographs · click to open them full screen

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THE HISTORIC ASAKUSA DISTRICTTHE IMPERIAL PALACE OF TOKYO AND THE FAMOUS NIHONBASHI BRIDGESHOPPING AT TAKESHITA STREETUS TWO WITH THE LITTLE DOG HACHINKOTHE FAMOUS SHIBUYA CROSSINGTALLER THAN THE EIFFEL TOWER . . . THE TOKYO TOWER .THE ASAKUSA TEMPLEVIEW FROM THE TOKYO METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT BUILDINGCouple of tourists leaning on the base of a bronze equestrian samurai statuePedestrians with umbrellas cross the wet street in Ginza among bright storefrontsTourists walk beneath the giant wooden torii gate of Meiji Shrine among treesCouple crouching with peace signs in front of Hotel Sunroute Plaza Shinjuku metal signCouple crouching on a Tokyo avenue, Tokyo Tower in the backgroundTHE CELEBRATION OF A WEDDINGSHINJUKU AT NIGHTTourist couple holding hands at Shibuya crossing, TokyoTourist in blue shirt standing before a wall of decorated sake barrelsWoman drawing on a Wacom screen in an electronics store, Japanese signsBackpacker next to glowing pachinko machines in a Japanese game arcadeYodobashi Camera signs in Shinjuku, buildings covered with red and white Japanese signsTourist in giant novelty sunglasses gives peace signs in a Japanese gadget shopJAPANESE BRIDETHE FAMOUS AND NUMEROUS JAPANESE PACHINKOIMPERIAL GARDENSGirl with backpack crossing a busy Shibuya street among taxis and skyscrapersYoung man in white t-shirt standing beside a yellow taxi in TokyoA DELICIOUS CARBONARA . . . OUR BREAKFASTS IN TOKYOCouple sitting on white sofa in hotel lobby, lit reception desk behind themA FAMOUS JAPANESE SAMURAI ON HORSEBACKTourists on Nakamise shopping street in Asakusa, red lanterns leading to Senso-ji templeWooden gate of Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, visitors climbing steps under trees

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