The flight from Saigon back to Seattle is brutal.  It’s an overnight flight to Tokyo, then an 8-hour layover before another overnight flight on to Seattle.  Rather than sitting in the comfy executive lounge at Narita, I decided to jump a train and spend a few hours walking around the city. In a daze.

  • Narita airport, 6:59am
  • Buying a ticket into the city, 7:00am
  • On board the Skyliner to central Tokyo, 7:08am
  • Stand on the left, walk on the right. Always. Everywhere. No exceptions.
  • Kawaii-chan's
  • $100 suit.  Includes shirt, tie and cravat.
  • Another self portrait
  • Noodle time - Shunjuku, 8:57 am
  • Kawaii-chan and Manga Man
  • Manga Man and two working girls
  • Manga Man, Working Girl #2, and Texting maven
  • Pachinko parlor
  • Should I strike up a conversation?
  • Shibuya Station
  • The Yamanote
  • Recycler
  • Plugged in
  • Yamanote engineer
  • Skyliner station, heading back to the airport
  • Texting Schoolgirl Kawaii-chan
  • This was in my face.  I wanted to bite it.

But here’s my favorite.  The pensive woman who, just as the doors were about to close, realized that I was taking a picture of her and was’t quite sure what to do…

 

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