A day in Enoshima and Kamakura

This is a region which used to be the capital of Japan some hundreds years ago. Full of temples and shrines, also the place of the largest Buddha statue, almost 15 meters high.

I was lucky to capture a freshly married couple in their wedding suit.

The office building

The office is located 5 stops from Shinjuku station with the Yamanote train. Door to door form the hotel to the office the trip was 30 mins. Shinjuku is the world's most busy station with about 3,5 million passengers daily. We got lost a couple of times in it and got out completely on the other side of it from where our hotel was.
It is so funny to see such a crowd of people every morning followinng their own tracks, as if they were cars on the street... And everybody dresset up as if they would go to a cocktail party or something... You can count on your fingers the people you'd encounter dressed up casually on the street...

A lot of work... and a lot of food

We worked long on Wednesday, until almost midnight. But we always started late the day, around 10 am (Here people sldom come to work before 10). And we always went out for lunch. Our Japanese hosts took us every day to a different restaurant, trying out a new type of food each time.

So on Wednesday we ate some Tempura (てんぷら), a kind of a deep-fried fish and sea food (squid, eel, crab, shrimps). Unfortunately I have no picture of that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempura).

On Thursday we had Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き) a savoury pancake with various ingredients (mine was with squid) - see the pictures. More about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okonomiyaki

The mirror that never gets wet

Genial invention: After I took a shower I was surprised to see a rectangle on my bathroom mirror which seemed to not get wet at all by the steam. I guess it is heated or something... Really cool!

Smoking on the street is prohibited

The Hotel

Checked-in at Hotel Keio Plaza, next to Shinjuku station. The hotel (first picture) is a 45-floor building, myself staying on the 19th floor.

The second picture is the view from my window, the building is the Metropolitan Government Office.

By the way, the toilet bowl is electronic! It can was your butt, and afterwards spray it ;-) Haven't used yet those features!

Konnichiwa from Japan

The flight was one and a half hour shorter due to some strong tailwind. I have not slept at all, and I still have the whole day ahead. On the runway after landing the welcome message was "Down with Narita airport". The Japanese are famous for their interesting translations into English. More to come ;-) Here is a picture from inside the Narita airport.