One genre of photography that I have been focusing more during this trip is street photography since the cities that we have visited in Asia are so lively with activity. I enjoy walking around urban settings and capturing city scenes and people going about their daily lives. I will include some photos I captured walking around Tokyo last week in this posting and the next posting.
p.s. We are back in Saigon. Our next trip will be to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau in mid-November.
On our last full day in Tokyo, we headed to the Tsukiji fish market in the morning to eat sushi. Neither of us had ever had raw fish before, so we were a little apprehensive. I surprisingly enjoyed it, while Yen…not so much.
Later on we went to the Ginza district and made dinner reservations at a Kobe beef restaurant. While waiting for dinner time to arrive, we walked to the Imperial Palace, which was nearby. Although we did not have the time to explore the palace grounds fully, we enjoyed the scenery and I got a chance to take a few photos.
While walking back to the Kobe beef restaurant, we came across a Freshness Burger restaurant, a burger chain that we tried a few nights before that had the most amazing burgers we have had in quite a while. Yen got really excited so we had a decision to make: try Kobe beef for the first time for $80 per person or eat burgers for $8 per person. In the end, Freshness Burger prevailed with a coin flip and I ended up eating two burgers. I am somewhat disappointed that we did not eat Kobe beef, but at least this gives us an excuse to go back to Japan.
Yen eagerly anticipating the sushi.
There is a moat surrounding the Imperial Palace.
The Imperial Palace.
Changing of the guards.
The park next the Imperial Palace has some really nice manicured trees.
A view of the city from the Imperial Palace.
Modern buildings run along a section of the moat.