Lantern City

The sky was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel…

@ Ford Corsair; which in these digital days means a bright, clear blue. 🙂

Chiba City, night and rain…

I was in Tokyo with the wife in December. I don’t go there often for sightseeing; when I go, I usually do for business and I normally leave after the business is done. We had a nice time, though. We had fish in Tsukiji, visited Ueno park, Tokyo Skytree and so on.
What’s funny is that after leaving the grounds of the Imperial Palace, I pointed-across the street to a nondescript building and told my wife that, in the late 1940s, it was SCAP HQ, the headquarters of General MacArthur during the US occupation. The building still stands as it was (and still is) an insurance office. She wasn’t convinced until I got the elderly park attendant nearby to testify that, yes, that _was_ MacArthur’s headquarters. Naturally, I made a tiny grammatical mistake in Japanese and my wife found it fit to make fun of that.
It was a decent trip anyway. I like the bullet-train regardless.

I simply must go back to Japan.