Dave's Mostly Japan Photo Gallery

261 photos from every full day of 2009. (I crossed the international date line 10 times in 2009, so I missed a couple days).

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The streets of Tokyo

Under the JR rail overpass outside Shibuya station in Tokyo.

Red Japanese lanterns at a Tokyo yakitori shop. These akachochin (red lanterns) indicate a Japanese pub/restaurant that serves liquor/sake. Friends tell me these lanterns were popular after WWII as a marking for black market shops and restaurants. As time progressed they came to mark restaurants where you could get drunk and have a good time (izakayas). Now they are all over Tokyo and generally indicate good food & drink at a working man’s price. There is much more to the history of Japanese lanterns. I would not dare to try to understand it all myself.

Sunrise over Tokyo today. The end of warm weather is finally here!!!

A tree next to Nagaoka Castle and Aoshi Shrine in Niigata, Japan.

Would you climb on and ascend, or just walk on by?