Picture Time

I haven't shot much in the way of pictures yet, but here is the best of what I have.

The above are all from directly behind my hotel.  I'm on the river, which river I don't know since I can't find it on any map where it isn't written in Japanese Kanji.  But it is very pretty and also extremely busy since it empties into Tokyo Bay.  I get two types of traffic past my window. In the morning and afternoon I get tugs, workboats and barges.  In the evening I get dozens of tourist boats, all glass roofed for sight seeing.  They are quite pretty when they are all lit up.

Here's something we don't see in the U.S. anymore.

How do you park cars in a land where the land itself is at a premium?  You stack them up of course.

And of course we have bicycles, lots and lots of bicycles.  As you can see in the second photo they stack those up too.  I've made some observations to myself about bikes and riding in Tokyo and I plan to devote some time next week to a post just about that.  btw the line of bikes in photo 3 is more than 100 yds long.

I really really should have taken my gloves out of my front pockets before I shot this. . . or at least sucked in my gut, geez I look like I weigh 200 lbs.

Not much planned for today, Sunday, gonna go to a grocery store and visit a nearby park and maybe a small museum, don't feel like dealing with the crowds of the weekend in the busier parts of town, or navigating the trains for that matter.  Cya