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Well the extreme Japanese weather has forced a change of plans for the second year running.  After landing at Tokyo Narita airport the news was the approach of Typhoon Phanfone to the coast of Japan has made the 500km car journey to Kyoto impossible.  So we took the decision to stay in Tokyo and ride out the storm here. The Tokyo Tower is not far from the Tokyo Grand hotel we stayed in on Sunday night and it certainly made a nice backdrop to the view from my 13th floor bedroom window ( top image ).  As the typhoon had not yet arrived, just the preceding heavy rain, we decided to go for a walk towards tower in the driving rain a fter being cooped up in a plane for nearly 12 hours .   The rain did make photography very difficult but by hiding under bridges we managed to get a few shots of the Tokyo Tower in the rain and low cloud before retiring to the hotel to dry off and grab some dinner. Built in 1958, the  Tokyo Tower is a communicat...

The final day in Japan was spent back in Tokyo, with a whistle stop tour of some of the sights we missed last week before we headed to Narita International Airport for the flight home. The modern buildings in Tokyo are amazing and I had to point my Fujinon 18mm f2 and 14mm f2.8 lenses upwards to capture the amazing skyline. First stop was the Tokyo Tower before taking the subway to the Shiodome SIO-SITE and the walking to Ginza, Tokyo's equivalent to Oxford Street in London or Champs-Elysse in Paris. I mages taken on a Fujifilm X-Pro1 +  14mm f2.8 or 18mm f2 lens ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping -----------------------------...

We spent a few hours wandering around the shopping districts in Tokyo with it bright neon signs providing a multi coloured spectacle to the streets of the Japanese capital city. Earlier we'd seen the Toyko Tower, which looks like a modern take on the Eiffel Tower in Paris.  Built in 1958, it is slightly more modern than the famous Parisien version, and is 333m high. After a few hours we took a taxi to the Hyatt Park Hotel and sat in the New York Bar on the 52nd floor with its spectacular panoramic views of Tokyo. Some more images of Tokyo at night - all images taken on a Fujifilm Finepix X100 + 23mm f2 or 19mm f2 lens (WCL X100 fitted) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Googl...