I love how the crosswalks in this picture sort of divides everything. In each little corner there’s so much going on. Everybody’s lives are all different but somehow lead them to this one intersection. And then you have me, the creeper from the balcony photographing it all 🙂
So one of the coolest nights that we spent in Tokyo was when we joined Eyexplore Tokyo for their “Tokyo Vertigo” tour. I’m a big fan of taking photo tours with locals whenever I’m in a new place and this one was one of the best tours I’ve been on. Not only did we get amazing, unique views of the city by hoping from rooftop to rooftop, but our tour guide, Axel was awesome! He was just so passionate about teaching photography and showing off his city. I really felt like I learned a lot from him. He’s also a super cool and friendly guy too. So if you’re ever in Japan, I’d definietly recommend looking them up.
Before leaving to Japan I googled “largest camera store in Tokyo”. Which lead me to here, Yodobashi. This isn’t just a camera equipment store, this megastore is amazing, overwhelming and awesome all at the same time. I mean you can tell just by looking at the escalators.
So each floor is dedicated to a particular electronic. The first floor was all cellphones, the second was computers, etc. Finally the 5th floor (but not the last floor of the department store) was the camera gear. I don’t know why, but I was kind of nervous. Maybe just excited nervous. But I really wanted to see if Japan had anything different than what I could purchase in America. The only real differences I saw was in the accessories, not really the camera gear itself. They had rows and rows full of tripods, rows and rows full of photo apparel, so many photo albums and framing ideas. It was a little nuts but extremely happy I got to see it in real life.
Shinjuku Gyoen park is the perfect place to view the cherry blossoms. The first time we tried to go, it was closed. We only had an hour the second time we went. And this was taken on the third attempt. But somehow we’d still get lost whenever we tried to go. I’d put it into our GPS and Shinjuku Gyoen sounded like Shinjuku”jail”. I was startled me every time I heard it.
Ok, so all the images are officially being uploaded in random order because this was taken the last night of our trip. This is of Shibuya, you know the place where they have the busiest intersection in the world. At this point, Andrew and I were so tired, full from dinner and just trying to make the most of our last night in Japan. I remember standing on top of this foot bridge and we were reminiscing on memories of the trip and comparing it to our last trip in Europe. At one point he got me laughing so hard, it was difficult to take this long exposure shot. No, I wasn’t on a tripod and was hand holding it. I know, sometimes I can be a noob.
