The fever

I visited the Tokyo apple store recently and bought myself a card reader so I could get photos onto this gadget of mine. Some of you might have wondered about the lack of photos on the blog directly and it's down to me not being able to insert photos as I type the entries up in slack moments. That's all going to change though and to celebrate here's a few images Ive liked from Japan so far. It's easy to poke fun at literal translations so I'm avoiding that but some of the imagery and smiling animals makes me smile as it's so different and happy compared to things I see back home.

Have you ever heard of Pachinko? Nope, neither had I but it's a big thing here. A bit strange and neither Joan or I could get it but each of the halls had hundreds of machines and the most unbelievable noise inside.

Not the greatest photo what with scratched glass and reflections but you get the idea. Apparently 3 million people make this crossing per day.

They are big on emergency response here in Japan and even Hello Kitty gets in on the act.

Though I'm not quite sure what a big fish and small bird add to the topic of earthquake response.

Meanwhile the firemen get their own special manhole covers.

I saw this and wondered if we have to be courteous to aliens.

In the midst of it all the natives are oblivious on Nintendo DS games,

And mobile phones...

That's just a small selection from the last couple of days but it's all interesting stuff and I'll see what has yet to come. There will be more on the Flickr page soon.

Location:３丁目,Kawaguchi City,Japan