Tokyo in 72 hours

[RONDAL]

So I just got back from an almost overwhelming experiance. 14 days ago my coworker found a seat sale to Tokyo for $400 so that he could go for a meeting. After a lunchtime discussion a group of us in the office decided to attend as well as make a trip out of it.

40 hours of travel time later thanks to a Russian Volcano which forced us to refuel and stay the night in Hawaii (as well as miss our meeting), we finally arrived.

For those that have never been, Tokyo is an assault on all your senses.....and not in a bad way. Everything is just so fast, so different, and so immense.

I took with me my Nikon D90 and 18-200mm, 50mm and 10-20mm lenses, plus 30GB of memory.....

This is Tokyo through my eyes.


















I am still busy editing my photos. I took a lot in 72 hours.
It's amazing what only 8 hours sleep in Japan can allow you to acheive.

The full set (over 100 photos) can be viewed here ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/3144170...7620273078307/ ) , and will continue to be updated as I finish editing the photos. Still have to do the Imperial Palace as well as Electric Town and the area known as Harajuku where kids dress up like anime and cos-play characters.

Enjoy.



I can't wait to go back again.

[VeeDubArt]

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nice pictures. I'd love to go visit tokyo myself one day...

40 hours travel time and you're only staying 2.5 days?

[RONDAL]

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only time i could afford to take off of work. it was supposed to be 3.5 days, but the russian volcano threw a wrench into our plans and northwest airlines couldn't adapt quick enough.

i got to see hawaii as well. bonus!

[R_Ethug]

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damn nice photos andrew! that second pic in this thread reminds me sooo much of saigon!

[RONDAL]

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added 50 more from the palace into my photostream

[VWSM]

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I'am painting number 2.
Awesome pic's

[Canadian Turbo]

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Awesome pics, so jealous, would loved to have got in on that deal but alas it just didn't work. I have been once on an exchange when I was in High School and I really cannot wait to go again.

[RobG]

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Amazing pictures!

[MusicalGenius]

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Wow, just WOW! As everyone else has already said, I too would love to one day experience that side of the cosmos.

[RONDAL]

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I totally took the trip on a whim. It took me literally 5 minutes from my buddy saying it was $400 (taxes in) round trip, for me to agree.
I am usually one of those people that plan out trips and want a gameplan. In japan a gameplan is useless and will go out the window the minute you hit the ground. I just made sure to have lots of batteries, lots of SD cards, some lenses, my camera, my passport and $500CDN converted into Yen, plus the lonely planet guidebook.

Was an amazing experiance and I would definetly recommend it. You will feel so overwhelmed when you get there, and almost scared, but once you start trying to make sense of it all it will all come to you, and you will be so much better for it when you leave.

Truly was an awesome experiance.

[Wildfire]

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Amazing pics! Thanks for sharing...