The following are chronologic rolls from the point and shoot:
This is night 0 after dinner at Tempura Tenchi in Ginza. This was after a decent travel day on our end. Rustin had already been in Japan for over a month. The Porter bag is foreshadowing a future purchase of my own.
Hie Shrine looking through one of the gates (note bar at very top of frame). This was abutting our first hotel Capitol. This was early in the morning on our way to the metro heading to Tsukiji fish market on day 1. It was pretty cold in the shade.
Morning of day 2 we woke up to snow and sleet and rain. Our plan was to go to Asakusa to visit Seno-ji shrine and also a reservation for Sukiyaki at Chinya. This was on our walk from the station to Chinya.
We turned a corner after lunch and unexpectedly visualized Tokyo Skytree in the near distance. It was totally a surprise and really a massive presence on the otherwise humbly low skyline in old Tokyo. We walked halfway across the bridge over Sumida River to take pictures of it.
Walking to Senso-ji....
Senso-ji Shrine
On the roofdeck hangout cafe/bar Friend in Hand.
This was at FILMCAMERA TOKYO in Harajuku. Such a cool store. Pricey but cool. They had a medium format widelux as well and a mint condition widelux F8 with box and everything. Along with a bunch of other cool expensive stuff. Heres the Super wide from my phone:
385k yen is about $2400 bucks today.
This was outside PAMM in the Omotesando hills, a clothing store based inside an old two story home. It was so chill. Shoes off on entry, walk around the house drinking tea with slippers. The old bathrooms were the changing rooms. Vibe central, Japan.
So many chill little homes in the hills here with their own little character, one after another. The streets are kinda narrow but not in a way that the street is small and everything else is the same size as usual so it feels cramped. Moreso like everything, the street, the signs, and lights, the homes, the interspersed vending machines tucked into everyblock (sometimes seeming to be on the homes' private plot) etc. they all shrunk down together proportionally to one another so its like you are walking through this cute peaceful neighborhood where everything is 75% the size of what you are used to. Like a town miniature. It gives this feeling like you can move so fast through everything if you keep normal sized steps and pace, but since its chill vibes you take 75% steps and everything slows down to chill the pace.
Lol. Just enjoying myself at the konbini.
Pantea searching the racks and stacks of Gachapons. We got mini plastic clocks (functional and nonfunctional), ramen, vending machine with working dispenser, zippered pocket bag. Random stuff.
Finishing her bowl of late night in a private booth at Ichiran, Pantea contemplates getting a second bowl (jk that was me). This was dank.
Walking out of Meiji Jingu shrine.
Sake barrel offerings.
Color in the backstreets of Shibuya. Me wearing my new Denham jeans that I bought with dollhairs.
^Love the zoom on this point and shoot ->
Back in Harajuku strolling
Entrance to Togo shrine in Harajuku where they sell Hello Kitty amulets, lol
Katsudon, with the mustard of course
Our miniature bed in TRUNK Hotel. This was supposedly good for two people.
Pantea trying her viral tictok drink - from the konbini she got a cup of ice, grape ice cream balls, and mitsuya cider, and put it together.
Shibuya at night
The following are chronological photos taken on the Minolta XE-7:
The view from our room at Capitol Hotel Tokyu, which was outstanding, when we first arrived from the airport.
And this is the next morning looking the other direction.
The gate coming from Roppongi direction
You could never go thirsty in Tokyo. But you may end up collecting a lot of plastic bottles before finding somewhere to dispose of them.
Pantea feeling tall in the miniature Omotesando Hills.
I have some more from the SLR that are still in the camera incomplete. And of course 3 rolls of B&W widelux that LA Film is lagging on.
