Bokeboke Island - Photos - Japan Trip 2012, Aug 9th-27th August 2012, Japan

Bokeboke Island

Japan Trip 2012, Thursday 9th/Friday 10th August 2012 — Photos (Day 1)

Setting off	Sleeping Beauty, G-VNAP	Lunch - chicken, vegetables and rice with sesame noodles
Dessert - I never did work out what to do with the knife	Passing over Russia	Passing over Russia
A pork and sage danish wrap - just a posh-sounding sausage roll	Rise and shine	Tokyo Skytree visible through the haze
Shirahoshi Hime	A distant mobile suit spotted on the way to Comiket (C82 day 1)	Day 1 haul

Japan Trip 2012, Saturday 11th August 2012 — Photos (Day 2)

Fireworks over the bay

Fireworks over the bay

Japan Trip 2012, Sunday 12th August 2012 — Photos (Day 3)

Gloomy morning weather	Gloomy morning weather	Tokyo Big Sight - East halls
Tokyo Big Sight - Conference Tower	Tokyo Big Sight - Conference Tower	Tokyo bay
The view from my hotel window	Tokyo Skytree	Tokyo Skytree at night
Tokyo Skytree HDR tone-mapped	Huge Jiji	Even larger Totoro
Day 3 haul	Comic Aqua (C82)	As good as new

Japan Trip 2012, Monday 13th August 2012 — Photos (Day 4)

Akiba Cultures Zone	Billboard bus	Outside Tokyo International Forum
The gallery in the TIF "Glass" building	Looking away from Tokyo International Forum	Aniki gets everywhere
Day 4 haul

Japan Trip 2012, Tuesday 14th August 2012 — Photos (Day 5)

Melon soda	Mikuman	"Bread that looks like negi"
No one was convinced...	Day 5 haul

Japan Trip 2012, Wednesday 15th August 2012 — Photos (Day 6)

Katsumaru Suisan (Utsunomiya Seafood Centre)	Sweets Paradise, Utsunomiya	Tarutaru salad (made with real Tarutaru)
Inside the Tarutaru salad	More Miku produce	I think this one more accurately fits the description on the packet than the negipan
Day 6 haul

Japan Trip 2012, Thursday 16th August 2012 — Photos (Day 7)

Leaving Tokyo for Nagoya	Ekiben box	Breakfast - Omrice
Villages along the Tokaido Shinkansen route	Fields along the Tokaido Shinkansen route	Towns along the Tokaido Shinkansen route
Naruto-themed Meiji Ichigo Au Lait - I drink rather a lot of this	Poppippo~ Future Vegetable	The ingredients - I think it tastes nicer if you don't look first
Day 7 haul

Japan Trip 2012, Friday 17th August 2012 — Photos (Day 8)

Japan Trip 2012, Saturday 18th August 2012 — Photos (Day 9)

Lunch in Umeda - hamburg and omrice	Lots and lots of rain	Even more rain
Dry-O-Matic 2000 (pat. pending)	Okonomiyaki	Day 9 haul

Japan Trip 2012, Sunday 19th August 2012 — Photos (Day 10)

Den Den Town, Nipponbashi, Osaka	Ota-Road, Nipponbashi, Osaka	Dotonbori Canal
Dotonbori Canal	Dotonbori Canal	Dotonbori Canal
Day 10 haul

Japan Trip 2012, Monday 20th August 2012 — Photos (Day 11)

Den Den Town, Nipponbashi, Osaka	Camera panic	Fuji-san
Fuji-san	Day 11 haul

Japan Trip 2012, Tuesday 21st August 2012 — Photos (Day 12)

The dangers of Akihabara	The UDX building, part of Akiba Crossfield	The UDX building, part of Akiba Crossfield
Buildings in Akihabara bathed in sunlight reflected from the windows of the UDX building	Enjoying a "Mango Tango Cream Swircle" at Tully's Coffee, UDX building	Akihabara in the evening
Shinagawa at night	Day 12 haul

Japan Trip 2012, Wednesday 22nd August 2012 — Photos (Day 13)

Early O'Clock - that's A.M.	On our way to Shiroishi, then Sendai, via Fukushima	Fukushima station
Shiroishi station	Looking to the North West from the platform of Shiroishi Zao station - directly ahead are the mountains of Fubo, Byobu, Katta and Zao, with Mount Hanafusa on the left of the picture	The station embraces the town's heritage with displays of reproduction artefacts...
...as well as artefacts of a more modern variety	From higher up	A moth that hitched a ride on my bag and accompanied me for much of the morning
Shiroishi castle	A shoutokuhi (頌徳碑, memorial stone) for Katakura Kojuurou on the site of the old castle honmaru	Now with more Max
Sign (left)	Sign (right)	Sign (awesome)
The idyllic country town station, seen in many a nostalgic movie	Date Masamune atop his trusty motorsteed	The Loople Sendai bus
The Loople Sendai bus	The hill leading up to the complex	Gardens on the way up to the mausoleum
A shrine in the gardens	The last hill before Zuihouden and the small museum nearby	Outside Zuihouden
It looks fierce	Zuihouden	Zuihouden
Zuihouden - Door detail, including the Date crest	The site of Zuihouden	More steps
Crossing the Hirose river	A viewing point in the Aoba castle complex, home to Date Masamune's statue, looking out across the city he founded	Date Masamune's statue
Date Masamune's statue	The city that Masamune's statue gazes upon	The city that Masamune's statue gazes upon
Sweets Paradise, Sendai	More naughty cakes	Hatsune Miku promotion at Family Mart
More Miku	Day 13 haul

Japan Trip 2012, Thursday 23rd August 2012 — Photos (Day 14)

Shinagawa in daylight

Japan Trip 2012, Friday 24th August 2012 — Photos (Day 15)

Naked Arms is required singing in the Basara room	I'm afraid I didn't do a very good job of capturing the decor	Choco-banana honey toast
A view of Odaiba and the Rainbow Bridge from the Yurikamome "loop"	Diver City	Gundam Front Tokyo, Diver City
Up close and personal with a mobile suit	A core fighter that has seen better days	Lunch at Sizzler - that's not just chocolate sauce, but real molten chocolate... and cheese toast
Capcom shop	Towering Gundam	The side of Diver City forms a giant projection screen later in the evening
The queue to view the mobile suit from the elevated photography deck	I think she's lost	Yakatabune in Tokyo bay

Japan Trip 2012, Saturday 25th August 2012 — Photos (Day 16)

Saitama Super Arena

Japan Trip 2012, Sunday 26th August 2012 — Photos (Day 17)

251 metres above sea level	Looking South from Ikebukuro - The cluster of buildings in the top right of the photo is Shinjuku	Looking East towards Tokyo Skytree
Overlooking Sunshine City and the aquarium	Looking East from Ikebukuro	Looking South-East from Ikebukuro
Looking South-East from Ikebukuro	Looking South from Ikebukuro	Looking South from Ikebukuro
Looking North-West from Ikebukuro - Ikebukuro station is in the bottom left corner	Looking North from Ikebukuro - looking down on the hotel	Looking North from Ikebukuro - looking down on the hotel
Ikebukuro in miniature	Tiger & Bunny - The Beginning	Sadly Max was elsewhere so we missed this wonderful photo opportunity
There's no escape	Hachiko	It is sweating...
I suppose it does look a little like Hachune Miku's cheek	It tastes better than it looks	Day 17 haul

Japan Trip 2012, Monday 27th August 2012 — Photos (Day 18)

Bidding farewell to our temporary home - Ark Hotel Tokyo, Ikebukuro	Lunch - beef in red wine sauce	Vanilla mousse with Chantilly cream
Chicken and mayonnaise sandwich	Almost home	Not quite lunch and not quite dinner
"If I say nothing, perhaps it will go away"

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