Postcard from Tokyo: Signs and Other Sights, Some Sexy

Intently making ningyo-yaki at Asakusa's Sensouji temple.

High spirits at the temple!

A neighborhood shrine.

Famous street crossing at Shibuya. It's usually more crowded than this!

Hachiko, the faithful dog, is the popular meeting place at the Shibuya train station.

The Toto showroom is fun to explore for both kitchen design and fascinating bathrooms.

Entry to Kappabashi, the restaurant supply store district.

Plastic food store at Kappabashi.

Home-cooking: Traditional Japanese breakfast that includes fish (bought half-dried, then grilled), miso soup, rice, pickles, and more.

More home-cooking: Shabu shabu meal ready to begin.

Salaryman eating yakitori in the famous omoide yokocho alleyways, under the trains.

Don't feed the birds, koi, or turtles. And don't fish for anything, either!

Yes, excrement is bad.

Friends are to be found in Tokyo.

Subway sign indicates women-only at certain hours when the trains are packed and there tends to be a bit of groping.

Despite power shortages, neon still lights the nights in Tokyo. Here: Shinjuku, and the entrance to Kabukicho ("red light district").

Sign at the entrance of a sex shop in Kabukicho. Fight scum!

Great discounts for women and gay customers at this bar!

M's department store ("Pop Life Department") features seven floors of sex toys. This sign explains a discount if a woman (or man, apparently) wears an item to purchase and allows a photograph.

Sex dolls at M's. (I had to sneak this shot, as no inside photos are allowed.)

Televsion program features a lingerie store worker known as "The Bust Sniper" who claims to never fail in guessing the bust size of women. At this point in the show, she's 8 for 8, and gets an H cup correct. Then goes a perfect 10 for 10!

In the end, lots of LOVE in Tokyo.