The only truly interesting pictures I ever took were back in May 2006 when I visited Tokyo for 19 days. Other than shots of my boxes, I haven't taken pictures of anything worthwhile since. I've got more pics of Tokyo, the Imperial Palace and whatnot, but unfortunately, they're all on my dead iBook.
Next month, I'll finally get off my a$s and get all the info transferred from that hard drive...
None of these pictures are in chronological order... For instance, if there's a day shot, I might've went back days or weeks later to take another shot at night...
THE PLACES: TOKYO & NIKKO
^ The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building from afar, which is a few minutes away from the hotel I stayed at.
^ From the courtyard.
^ From the opposite side... I've also got pics from inside both of the building's observation floors/towers but like I said...
^ On a tour bus rolling thu Ginza.
^ Tokyo Tower as seen from the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower.
^ Shinjuku days.
^ Shinjuku nights.
^ Shinjuku - Takashimaya Times Square days.
^ Shinjuku - Takashimaya Times Square nights.
^ Nikko - Five story pagoda.
THE PEOPLE: SHINJUKU, HARAJUKU & THE IMPERIAL PALACE
^ Shinjuku... The only shot I have (on my MacBook) from the inside of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. Those school kids - and their teacher - were real cool.
^ Outside the Imperial Palace... There was some kind of school festivities going on that day and a whole lotta kids out there from different schools in different uniforms... One group saw that I had a camera and went wild!
^ Harajuku... "Sweet Lolita" cosplay... Saturdays and Sundays, the young and hip gather at Harajuku... Lots of cosplayers there...
^ Harajuku... I forget what kind of cosplay that's called...
^ Harajuku... School girls.
^ Harajuku... Even the little kids get in on the action.
^ Harajuku.
^ Harajuku... This is a cat from Australia... He'd stand there perfectly still like a statue for minutes on end...
^ Harajuku... He's also a very funny dude!
^ Harajuku... I love the style of Japanese traditional dress... They've all got their yukata (summer kimono) on...
ONE FOR THE ROAD: SHINJUKU
^ This shot was taken on one of my last days there... I stayed on the 22nd floor of the Hilton Tokyo in Shinjuku. When I got to my room, the bag handler told me that on a good day, I could see Mt. Fuji from my hotel room widow... Almost the entire time I was there, the skies were gray and it was either raining or close to raining. Every time I looked down there, I saw nothing but clouds... I paid for a tour to go to Mt. Fuji (way before I even left the U.S.) on my last week there and on that day, it rained real hard. I stayed in my hotel room that day. Besides, I was told by a lady I met on one of my other tours that if I went there on a cloudy day, I wouldn't see the volcano at all... Well, the day after the rain, I looked outside and started to see the clouds slowly disappearing and there it was, Mt. Fuji!
If it would've remained cloudy down there the entire time I was in Japan, I would've thought that bag handler was full of sh*t - to this day!
I like taking abstract photos so people can see what I see. A mean street machine that's beefy and tough 
irate: I also like the retro styling I emplaced upon her 
