Tokyo leftovers

These are some photos Will took while in Tokyo...

This is the moat that surrounds the Imperial Palace...home of the Emperor (you can't get very close to his place)

This is one of the look-out towers at a corner of the moat.

And one of the bridges over the moat...I've seen this same photo in several tourism books since I took it...must be a good place to snap a photo.

This is looking back towards part of the city from one of the entrances to the palace. You're not allowed to walk on the lawn (hence, no shade).

This is one of the guards...I zoomed in.

This is a court building? (I forget now.) It was built in the late 1800s, and the plaque said it survived the huge earthquake in 1923...but was blown up in 1945. Rebuilt in the 50s.


These are views from four sides of the Tokyo Metropolitan Building...one of the taller buildings. You can see that the city just keeps on going...

This first view is looking north.

This is the west view.

Must be south...

And the east view.

This was Shinjuku...part of Tokyo where we were staying.

And a neat sign...no Japanese fluency needed.

Arrival in Japan

Our final photo before leaving the U.S.! We sat at SFO for about 3 hours after checking in, and gawked at the 747 when it pulled up. Goodbye California!!! Goodbye casual English!!!

Our view from our Tokyo hotel in the Shinjuku district... most of what Serenity saw of Tokyo! It got light outside at around 4am - which really threw us off, especially with the jet lag.

The view of Tokyo at night from one side of the Park Plaza Hotel, where we had a nice dinner. This view goes 360 degrees around -- the end is never in sight, no matter where you look! That was the amazing part about Tokyo -- it just seemed to go on and on and on...

After 3 days in Tokyo, Serenity was bussed to the domestic airport along with about 50 or so other people all going to Kyushu, and many to Fukuoka prefecture (-ken). Will was left to his own devices, and managed to find himself in Tachiarai at about the same time that she arrived... somehow!!!

Will is going to have to write about his experience with that, but as for Serenity:
All I can say, is that a co-worker was helping me into our apartment when she happened to call the Board of Education, and they told her that my husband was on his way... how they knew that, or how it was possible was totally beyond me... what a surprise!!

And on to Tachiarai...