Photo album
Japan
Photos from Tokyo.
The view from my hotel room, at daytime. 
A view from Tokyo's TV tower. It was raining, as you could probably tell. A Buddhist temple can be seen. 
A Shintoist temple at the top of Tokyo's TV tower. Note to self: don't take pictures with a flash against reflecting surfaces. 
A view from Tokyo's TV tower. The green at the horizont hides the Imperial Palace. (No, neither the Jedi Temple, nor the Galactic Senate are anywhere nearby.) 
Another view from Tokyo's TV tower. Some Buddhist school with strange roof can be seen. 
And another view from Tokyo's TV tower. The tall buildng on the right has the most expensive apartments in Tokyo. The one at the top rents for $150,000 per month! 
A view from Tokyo's TV tower - downwards. Yes, those are my feet. And, yes, the tower has the form and height of the Eiffel Tower - but it's painted red. 
A guard tower at the entrance of the Imperial Garden - i.e., the garden where the Imperial Palace is. You can see the moat around it. 
What do you call a public toilet at the garden where the Imperial Palace is? The Imperial Public Toilet? 
Another guard tower. The wall and the moat can be seen better. Or could be seen, if the picture were well-focused, that is. 
A close-up of the first guard tower. 
A famous Buddhist temple in Tokyo, from the back. 
Another temple, at the same complex. The spire at the top is covered with gold. The temple is not open for tourists. They say that some remnants of Buddha are kept there. 
You know those small, cute, red lights they hang in the front of the Chinese restaurants? Well, this one is wider than I'm tall. But, then, this is not a Chinese restaurant - it's a Buddhist temple in Japan. 
If you make a donnation to the temple, you can pick a random wooden stick from the black box. The stick is used as a key to open one of the wooden drawers, where you can find a piece of paper with a prediction. There's no money-back guarantee, though - if you don't like the prediction, you can't get your donnation back. 
The front gate to the temple complex. They burn insense in the smoking pot. Legend says that the smoke helps against falling hair. 
A colorful market in the front of the temple complex. 
The temple complex, shot from the front entrance. 
No, that's not a Nazi bell. The swastika has been used as a religious symbol for millenia. 
My mother loves bright flowers, so this picture is for her. 
The Tokyo stock exchange. For those of you who follow the stock market, this is the home of the Nikkei-225 index. For the rest of you, this is just yet another ugly office building. 
A small street in Tokyo, with a traditional Buddhist temple in the back. 
Ginza - the most expensive district in Tokyo. No, I didn't shop there. 
No, that's not an art museum. It's the Ministry of Justice. 
The view from my hotel room, at nighttime. 
The toilet seat in my hotel room. Yep, it's electrified and computerized. Now, where's that reset button?