Saturday, June 16, 2007

A what what now?

Volcano? As in eruption and flowing lava?

Mt. Asahidake steam vents

Oh well, at least we got to take the ropeway up and down Mt Ashidake, due to snow and bears on the trail.

Ice cream Mr Bear?

Snow and bears. If it had been one or the other we might have walked, but both?
Round trip ticket please.

Mt. Asahidake Ropeway

We are having so much fun in Japan. It is such an amazing county. Clean, beautiful, people are so polite and nice. Tokyo is one of the best run cities we`ve been to, on the list with Vienna and Hong Kong. The subway is a dream, even if it does get a bit crowded. I have my new motto, thanks to a Tokyo subway sign.

Do not rush

Even when crowded the subway is so orderly. Everyone waits for the exiting people to get off the cars before entering, they walk to the left in the corridors, and stand left on the escalators. It makes things run much more smoothly.

Tokyo school kids

Rich was in heaven. It`s an engineers delight.

The Ginza

We were on the 32nd floor of the Tokyo Park Hotel. It was so fun just watching the trains come and go, and wondering when the office workers in the buildings we could see would go home. Built in entertainment.


Tokyo 007

It`s hard to believe that we go home in less then two weeks. But I gotta get Rich out before he adapts too well and starts hanging out at the arcade all day.

Win me a pink panther please!

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