Japanese festivals are always good value. There’s plenty of food and booze, plus more than a few things to see and do. But none of them, it would appear, are quite as much fun as using a firearm.

Photographs from a small group of islands
Japanese festivals are always good value. There’s plenty of food and booze, plus more than a few things to see and do. But none of them, it would appear, are quite as much fun as using a firearm.

Or should that be anger mismanagement?

Whether it be the old and new, rich and poor, or even foreign and non-foreign, Tokyo is a vast city of contrasts. Striking differences that are everywhere. Even in tiny local bars, where the mild demeanour of one patron, can seem hugely dissimilar to the possibly very murky past of another.

At 634 metres, Tokyo Skytree is an absolute beast. And, as a broadcasting tower, it is decidedly pragmatic rather than pretty in design. But its monstrous size does make for a fairly striking silhouette.

At the end of a long day, after another long week, post-work beers are always a well-earned treat before the last leg of what could also be a long journey home.
