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 City Tour Of Tokyo

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The first stop on my Tokyo tour was Akihabara, or Electric Town. This area is so named because this is where all the big electronics stores are. If you need a digital camera, walkman, mp3 player, computer or whatever, then here's a good place to find it.

  
Akihabara has lots of big building covered with ads. Another thing they have is duty free electronics stores and also stores that sell special international models that are made to work with different electrical currents and languages.   

The car navigation systems in Japan are great! Check out the detail of the map!

   
And get a load of the 3D street as you drive through it, complete with buildings!   

Here's a nice Panasonic MP3 player. Less than 2 inches square, it uses Panasonic SD cards, which means your memory can be up to 1GB (or whatever the latest size is) in a tiny package.

  
Since Japan is so crowded, it make sense to stack things up and make the most of your vertical space. Some car ports do this by lifting cars up and out of the way like this one. This one looks like it holds 6 cars that rotate around inside the building. In addition, at the bottom of the picture you can see a round metal plate. When a car is backed onto the plate, the entire car is rotated (ala Batman's Batmobile turn table in the Batcave) so it can drive out forward.   
Part of the moat around the Imperial Palace.   
A scenic path in one of the temple areas.   
Another scenic path.   
A sushi kaiten (conveyor belt) restaurant.   

Next we went to Asaksuka to visit a temple. Here is the main gate to the temple with a huge lantern in the middle.

   
Here is the seal on the bottom of that huge lantern.   
This picture is from a friend. I think this is the Asaksuka temple,   

Next we took a boat from Asaksuka to Odaiba where we had dinner. On the way we passed this beautiful bridge.

   
Here's another view as we passed it.   

And yet another.

   
The bridge with Tokyo Tower behind it.   
The bridge with a replica of the Statue of Liberty   
Here is another bridge we passed.   
And another.   
And the tower of another.   
Here is a huge ferris wheel they have.   
The next day was our last day and here you can see what happens when 45 Americans and all their luggage take over a Japanese train.   
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