Saturday, May 24, 2014

Daikanyama - 代官山



















Daikanyama T-Site, a campus-type location of Tsutaya (books and music) consists of
3 buildings of bookstore, several cafes, a Starbucks, a pet store, camera store, garden store, etc.,
and is open until the highly unusual hour of 2 am.











Pandas at Ueno Zoo - 上野動物園のパンダ













Kiyomizu Kannon-do Temple - 清水観音堂












Ueno Daibutsu - 上野大仏




The photograph at the side of the Buddha's face shows what the
entire statue looked like before it fell in the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923.
The rest of the statue was melted down during the war effort.