Category: Japan 2012

What do geeks do when they go on vacation? They play with their new gadgets. Here’s a video I just shot out of the window of our hotel, using the fake-miniature effect in my new camera:

Cute, huh? You can get a somewhat bigger version by going to the non-embedded version here.

I took some photos of the Sky Tree also, which I’ll post shortly.

It’s about 7:45AM here in Tokyo. We just returned to our room after breakfast, where we’ll pause for a bit before heading out into the shopping area in Asakusa. Among other things, I want to look at pots for making gyokuro at a shop from which I purchased a pot two years ago; the trick will be to find the shop again in the maze of narrow streets densely lined with other shops. I think it’s not far from the Kentucky Fried Chicken. Also, Tracie needs some socks, so we’ll stop at a department store called Rox, on the theory that there are socks in Rox. read more