Just like in many other parts of the world, if it’s a sunny Sunday in the Japanese capital, then there’s gardening to be done. Not mowing lawns mind you. No backbreaking weeding either. But a spot of gardening nonetheless.
Gardening, Tokyo style
An old-style Tokyo deli
Tokyo has no shortage of fancy, modern delis, and the city’s numerous department stores are packed with them too. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t any room for their older, more traditional cousins, because there is — at least for now, anyway.
Wonderfully dated shops that offer the same weighed out portions, except there isn’t a digital scale in sight. No digital anything in fact.
Prayers for the smoker?
A beautiful Japanese woman in a traditional temple
The temple is traditional, whereas the clothes most certainly aren’t, and yet together they weren’t necessarily what one would call uncomplimentary.
Tokyo’s summer-like October heat
Japan’s fabled four seasons seem to have left leave of their senses this year, as despite being well into October, the summer-like heat shows no signs of abating. Quite the opposite in fact, as in Tokyo on Saturday it reached a new high of 31.3 degrees.
A temperature hot enough to not only enter the record books, but also result in slightly excessive grumbling and grimacing.
