The huge crane barge thing is back, this time building another smaller bridge just on the other end of the island to where it was building the big bridge last year.
Still amazes me how this thing can lift up something as heavy as half a bridge.
There’s a little Yakitori shop on Monja street that we buy from sometimes to take home and eat, I’ve always meant to get a photo of it and today I had my camera with me.
Really tasty.
And while I’m posting photos, here’s another one of Monja Street itself:
And another which is looking down one of the side alleys:
The last few weeks the weather has been fantastic. Autumn is here, the temperature has been around 20 degrees and generally sunny. We’ve been walking around our local area on the weekends quite a bit and really enjoying it.
Some autumn leaves:
And a view of Tokyo Bay:
We we’re walking home from Tsukishima this afternoon when we ran into an old man walking a tortoise.
The tortoise was quite happily following him along.
Apparently the tortoise is a Pyramided Sulcata, whose name is Bon-chan, he’s 15 years old and weighs 50kg. His owner is Hisao Mitami who runs a local funeral home. The tortoise is a bit of a local celebrity.
On Friday afternoon went out and took some test photos with a colleague who has the same camera, he’s been having some trouble with sharpness so we thought we would do some comparison shots. Anyway, one of the things we took some test photos of was this telegraph pole. It’s pretty amazing how many cables there are, and this is pretty normal for streets in Japan.
Here’s another one, just a bit further down the same road. This is looking towards Roppongi Mid Town from just near Izumi Garden Tower. I actually ended up quite liking this photo, the afternoon sun on the cables and the huge red billboard in that background with Godzilla advertising Kirin Fire – canned coffee.
I didn’t really think any more about the billboard, advertising is everywhere here, but then today, we were at Roppongi Hills with some visiting relatives and we went up to the City View on the 52nd floor. It was a really foggy day so not to good for taking photos of the view, I was just going to throw this photo away, but something red caught my eye…
It’s a plauge of the huge red and black Godzilla billboards.
We have a supermarket in our building, which is really rather convenient. You just get out of the elevator, walk through the two security doors, turn right and your there already, the entrance you come out of is just to the right of picture below. And what’s even better is that its still very much undercover so there’s no way you could possibly end up getting wet, even if its pouring rain.
Maruetsu is a large chain style supermarket that is very reasonably priced. Certainly way cheaper than the supermarket at our old apartment – Daimaru Peacock – which was really a “boutique” style venture…
Anyway, I had my camera with me the other day when we went in to buy some things, so I thought I’d take a few photos of some of the “standard fare” on the shelves.
First up, the meat section, portions are far smaller than Australia, and considerably more expensive.
Next, the “marine” section. Octopus!
Some fish, and squid… 
Around the other side of the supermarket is the “bento” section, all sorts of ready to eat snacks and meals such as sushi, noodles like udon and soba, fried foods, and heaps of other stuff. And a whole section on fresh baked breads at the end.
A bit further down the aisle and you come to the packaged bread / snack / cake section. And check out the funky electronic price tags, every shelf has them – in fact most places use them, they are “normal”.
Then somewhere back in the middle of the supermarket is the biscuits and normal snack foods section, full of tasty treats like this!
It’s always fun to wander around in the supermarket.
It’s that time of year again…
2009 Tokyo Bay Hanabi from k.blueice on Vimeo.
I’ll upload some photos later, but thought I would put some video up first. This is the first time I’ve really tried using the video feature on the D90, pretty happy with how it went in the end.
