More Random Pictures

Temple street entrance in Asakusa:

Popular street in Harajuku, the fashion center of Tokyo:
Akihabara:

Random Pics

Harajuku:


View from my apartment:
Ikebukero:

Shibuya.

This is the street my apartment is located on:
Another pic from my street:
View from the hotel in Shinjuku:

Sorry for the sparsity. I'll add more interesting pics later and hopefully some stories to go with them.

Japan By Numbers

60 - The number of exits from Shinjuku station.

3,200,000 - Number of people using Shinjuku station in Eastern Tokyo everyday. (My first destination after arriving at Narita Airport.) A bit intimidating.

300kph - The fastest regular speed on the Nozomi shinkansen (bullet train) between Osaka and Fukuoka, for a while the fastest scheduled train in the world.

36 seconds - The annual schedule deviation of an average bullet train, including during typhoon season, snow etc. The definition of efficiency?

55% - The percentage of the Japanese coastline which is covered in concrete.

97% - The percentage of major rivers in Japan which are dammed and/or diverted from their original course.

8% - The amount of park space Tokyo has compared to London. From these last three numbers, you can't help but feel that they don't value nature much.

532 - The number of McDonald’s restaurants in Tokyo.

80,000 - The number of restaurants in Tokyo (there are 15000 in New York and 6000 in London).


I pulled this information from the following site: http://japanexplained.wordpress.com/

It's a great way to quickly learn some interesting facts about Japan.