D,S,J,F Tokyo 2010 Days 1 and 2

I haven't been a-bloggin' because Debbie(my old 2 time roomie from Astoria and Harlem and previously classmate at Yonsei in Korea back in '00), Salih, Jennifer, and Fu were visiting Japan. We smashed a lot into these days. Here is the first of a ton of photos. Keep in mind I tried to keep it to stuff that hasn't been seen on this blog. If this were their blog there would be millons of photos here. P.S. Salih and Fu both were sporting the same 21 megapixel camera the Canon 5D. Almost all of these are from them.

Big Matsui outside Shinjuku Station.

Omoide Yokocho shinjuku. alleys of cool little yakitori places

what's she saying? put a smile on that face because you're in heaven now Fu?

I love this photo. Man what a $3,000 plus camera can do.

This waitresss at the izakaya we always go to loved Jennifer and wanted pictures of her, she didnt even think to get pictures with her

us being bad Gaijin and drinking in the street. They were amazed that you can do that here. It's awesome

Salih bought 4 paintings from some guy at the Design Festa gallery.

Vivi's highschool buddy Kaede at Anniversarie Cafe in Omotesando.

This is an awesome picture of debbie. This is the kind of picture her kids will be in awe of when they are old enough to appreciate it. She looks like Barron Von Red Blood that has a knife in her boot and will slit your throat for looking at her wrong.

motorcycle sign, 3 bikes, is this a residence?

House had cool mod/traditional stylings, especially that radical front bay window

NO!

I always see a line of girls waiting in harajuku for what seemingly looks like nothing. This time however i saw a woman leading the first few from the front of the line down the street. we ran to follow them and ended up here! at this store that sells little "Johnny's" photos. johnny's is either a pop group, pop conglomerate, or something to do with male pop singers. I could not believe that these school girls were all waiting in line just to go to a store to buy little johnny's photos. this day was the first time i noticed they had decorated their bags with millons of johnny's photos.

Johnny's

this is for bob. this is what you have to look forward to. skewers upon skewers of stuff like tomatoes and asparagus wrapped and grilled in bacon

awesome shot that was probably not meant to be like this but caught just as this girls pink suitcase with her "afterschool" clothes rolls by.

Marco's spanish friends were visiting too so we combined forces for a rad karaoke night. They know how to party.

another Japanese twist on American, hotdog buns filled with frosting. um get me up in some of that frosting.

and its next to the equally gross SBY Happy room

Kicks Lab

Jenn and Salih's Tatoos. No one gave the trouble the whole trip i dont think.

calming blue anti suicide light on the platform

their hotel. the shinjuku sunroute hotel. far as i can tell they were happy and the place was pretty nice so it gets recommendation stars.

menacing tommy lee jones' vending machine light makes him more menacing.

graffiti on the french embassy.

pachinko parolor. still need to try this.

this is awesome. "Erastic Form Piilow"

Hosts in kabukicho

How did they know?

hashimoto sensei was proud of his rainbow phone, and he should be

kids playground robot tower near Roppongi

"Jacobs by Marc Jacobs for Marc by Marc Jacobs in collaboration with Marc Jacobs for Marc by Marc Jacobs" how rediculous is that? and its a real bag too cuz the next day Akari had one that she bought in NY.

Tanuki melons and Tanuki balls.