A view from top - just few minutes before landing (landing was horrible; it was very windy and the plane was swinging like crazy)
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Just outside Narita Airport - Tokyo (Temperature was less than 6 degrees)
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| Airport Limousine - available and reasonable mean to transport to hotels from Airport
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| Our Hotel
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| View from Hotel Window
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| Same view at Night
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| Creative planting?!! (in hotel area)
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| "The Sakura Street" - I called it so - next to hotel - I think I took like a 100 pictures of the same street at different times :)
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| Again
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| Again
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| And Again :)
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| Subway map - peace of cake :S
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| In the subway - On our way to Bullet Train Station
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| Shinkansen (Bullet Train) Station
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| Different types of Bullet Trains (can go at 300 km/hour)
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| Abood's souvenir
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| To Kyoto/Osaka taking the Nozomi line (fastest)
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Bullet Train's seats
- much better and more comfy than Airplanes'
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| Tickets Please!
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| My Ticket
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| Mt. Fuji from Bullet Train window only - We couldn't plan a day to Fuji because of unstable weather conditions
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Bicycles parking :)
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| Yummy pastries at Kyoto :) needed to recharge energy before moving on :)
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| Real Cake??
All made of Sugar :)
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| I think this is an old ninja school (if I can remember correctly)
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| A Beautiful Garden at Kyoto - Not sure about the name though
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| Sakura Trees :)
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| More trees :)
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| And more trees :)
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| Cuuute little kids enjoying the trees
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| Hmmm wonder what the final result looks like!
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| Lovely Day
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| Golden Temple in Kyoto
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| Bye-bye Kyoto
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| Sunset in Osaka
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| Best corn soup I've ever tasted :)
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| What's up?!
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| Different Picture of Universal Studios in Osaka - unfortunately it was packed as it was their spring break; we tried only one game and we had to wait more than 2.5 hours in line just to get in :S
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| Hard Rock Cafe
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| The spinning Globe of Universal Studios
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| The 4-D cinema
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| Spider man show and shop
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| Peter pan stage
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| Sesame stree show :)
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| MJ Tribute
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| Little girl enjoying the show
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| Hello!
And then back to Tokyo again |
| Akihabara Area in Tokyo - known for Anime and Electronics :)
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| Yodobashi center - most famous center at Akihabara area
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| A temple at a walking distance from Akihabara
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| I think they write their wishes and tie them up on that stand
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Guess What!! More Sakura Trees - The temple has a very nice garden surrounded by amazing Sakura trees
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| I guess this is another way of writing wishes in temples - Very nice :)
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| Another temple from a walking distance from the previous one. but this one is almost empty
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| Roppongi Hills
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| Emirates Airlines posters at Roppongi Hills *thumbs up*
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| Spider sculpture at Roppongi Hills
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| Busiest area in Tokoy - Shibuya
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Set, Get Ready............
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| Gooooo!
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| Parking?? no problems!
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| Capsule Hotel
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| Can't resist taking Sakura Close-ups :)
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| My Favourite street again :)
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| Orange Tree on the Highway to Disney Land
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| Different Picture of Disney Land - Storm was approaching
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| Who doesn't like goofy?!
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| Tulips Close-up this time :)
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| Disney Castle
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| Alice in Wonderland
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| Storm getting closer
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| The rain felt like clod little stones
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| Diney shows started after the storm was over - here are different pictures of the show Mini-Mouse
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| Pocahontas
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| Monsters Inc.
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| The Incredibles
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| Kids went crazy over Mickey!!
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| The Disney Metro =)
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| Disney Resort
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| Tokyo Tower - also didn't go because of weather
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| Asakusa Temple Market
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| Asakusa Kannon Temple
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| This huge slipper was used to scare off the enemies during wars; so the enemies would think that whoever is protecting the temple were giants by looking at their foot size! hmmm
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| Temple area
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| Somewhere in Tokyo
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| This is a continuation of my favorite street - I think it goes for about 400 meters
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| Had to :)
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| Last day of our stay; there was a charity event arranged and held in the hotel by embassies of Arabic Countries
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I hope you enjoyed :) arigato gozaimasu |
