30 posts tagged “tokyo”
あけおめ！
Happy New Year!
I went to Tokyo and just hung out. Took a bunch of pics. I'll share them, of course. Watching last week's Top Gear in Vietnam special, which is hilarious. Best road trip ever.
BUT! Tokyo photos.
It's been 6 months since I visited Tokyo :o Too long, I have to say.
Though I was unsuccessful in getting tickets to the New Year's Countdown Ayumi Hamasaki concert this year, I'm still gonna spend New Year's in Tokyo. Why not, yes?
I've been to Tokyo several times, of course, but there's still stuff I haven't done. I haven't been to Yokohama! And there's no reason to have gone (I get a free JR ticket with my shinkansen ticket, for use in Saitama/Tokyo/Chiba/Yokohama), so that would be good.
But what specifically should I definitely not miss out on? Let's pretend this is the last time I'll ever be able to visit Tokyo/the Tokyo region.
What things in the Tokyo/Saitama/Chiba/Yokohama area should I definitely go to/visit/see/do? Places with awesome photo opportunities are doubleplusgood.
I uploaded this video. It had an Ayu song. YouTube detected it, realized it was an Avex song, and because Avex is a shitdick, they block any use of their property (unlike UMG which puts ads on pages with their material, which is the way shit ought to work).
Anyway, then I tried YouTube's "Audioswap" function, which was offered to me as a way to rectify the problem. But apparently it takes forever to do that? Fuck off. Then it started giving me "An Unknown Error Occurred" everytime I tried to change the audio or mute the audio, so I said fuck this and deleted it. I changed the audio on my end (which involved re-encoding to .avi, which somehow fucked the AR), and re-uploaded. Then YouTube decided to, again, only give the supar low quality version, and generally be a cock.
Anyway, Spring 2k8, with hanami and a trip to Canada, and Tokyo later.
In EYE-BLEEDINGLY LOW QUALITY BECAUSE YOUTUBE FUCKED UP THE CONVERSION SOMEHOW, and only has the "normal quality" version available, instead of the high quality and the normal quality, as is the case for the rest of my videos -_-.
There are two times when the Emperor makes public appearances at the palace in Tokyo: on his birthday (Dec 23 for the current emperor) and New Year's Day. One year, I was in Tokyo for New Year's, and though I felt like ass and could barely breathe, I ventured onto the subway to go to see the Emperor, the wonderful Emperor of Japan.
I think I got a few pictures... let me try to dig them up:
I was far away, and being jostled by people (understandably) far more excited than I was. I tried to shoot some video, but it didn't turn out very well. Gives a good idea of the mood, though.
Behold, a pointless video, taken Dec 31 2007, in the early evening, out the window of the Royal Host near Otsuka Station in Tokyo while I ate delicious sirloin-steak-don teishoku.
I bought THINGS in Tokyo, and now I shall make you look at them, ooh aah.
PS: Working with pictures in the Vox editor is still fucking batshit retarded and I HAT EIT SO HARD
