More Japan Through the Retro-spectacles

Neighborhoods:
SHIBUYA (my favorite favorite bebop gyoza shop is in there someplace... and a quiet temple just a stone's throw from infamous Shibuya Crossing)

SHINJUKU (our home "ku", throwing it down)

IKEBUKURO (and catching up with my long lost friend Harumi!)

MEGURO/NAKAMEGURO (you can't tell, but the first two pictures are of guys practicing karate! Karate in Japan! Ohmigod!)

DAIKANYAMA (weird embassies, amazing record shops and the super-cool Trees Are So Special gallery)

EXCURSIONS: YOKOHAMA (that big gray thing is the new Yokohama dock... looks like a huge wooden whale, thanks Sarah for knowing about this thing... also we went to an art gallery complex nearby that had a bar made entirely out of white plastic cutting-boards)

EXCURSIONS: STUDIO GHIBLI IN MITA (they wouldn't let non-children into the plush cat-bus, dammit)