Pictures from Tokyo
Greetings from Tokyo! We’re starting our second full day here, and we’re having a great time so far. It’s mind-boggling to be out without the boys – and up late on school nights 
It’s the 4th of July, and since we can’t have burgers on a grill in someone’s backyard, we’re looking for at least some type of American experience today. We’ve decided to see a baseball game, which is also a uniquely Japanese experience. We’re seeing the Yomiuri Giants against the Hanshin Tigers at the Tokyo Dome (the Giants are like the New York Yankees of Japanese baseball). There’s a lot of fun stuff going on today – for us it was a tough call between the game, the international breakdancing competition Battle of Year preliminaries in Kawasaki, and the Shonan Hiratsuka Tanabata matsuri (I really wanted to see the festival, but it’s a 2 hour train ride each way to Hiratsuka, so we decided to skip it).
I may not have many opportunities to blog while we’re here, but I’ll do my best to at least upload pictures. Keep an eye on this post, as I’ll try to add photos each day to the album above. So far I have pictures from our first day yesterday – Tsukiji fish market in the morning, lunch with friends we made through Kai’s school in 2007, and a wonderful dinner at Nozaki Shuten.
Having now been to Tokyo, I very much appreciate the “Red Alert!” photo. The US needs to be more proactive about this sort of thing!
Great photos, Mike. Your breakfast looks so much better than my raisin bran.