It's also very filling. I visited a friend from Edinburgh today who's over here helping her mum pack and they made this excellent dinner.

Difficult to get the scale of this. Big. And Yellow. And probably dangerous.

Nothing specifically Japanese, it just looks cool

And just to show that it really is the view from my office, here's me...

And this is the beginning of the most amazing sunset I've seen since arriving. I like the view from my window.

My Desk with MacBook Pro, Mighty Mouse and Oolong Cha.

They finally rereleased the prepay Metro and Tokyu line I.C. card yesterday after running out of them in April. So I got one.

It's like I'm some kind of local.

"Hey, do you need a ticket?"
"No, I have my prepay metro card"
:)

Or 'Ginger Pork'. I'm not intending to just upload lots of photos of my dinner but some of it does look nice.

The view from my office door down towards reception in the Ark Mori Building.

Part of the carnival procession.

Biiiiig monkey.

Turns out September is carnival season here in Tokyo. This was just a little procession making its way around Ueno.

Had to jostle my way past a few dozen other guys taking photos of the girls in front. Didn't they realise I was taking these photos for posterity, not for the girls in the tiny bikinis?

Another of those incredibly shiny buildings...

In the continuing effort to prove to various people I am eating well while over here, this is my dinner. Tonkatsu, ramen and a chickeny broth.

Tasty it was, too.

Spent the afternoon reading a book on Japanese verbs while getting cooled occasionally by the mist coming off this fountain. It looked really cool with the sun going down behind it but I couldn't quite capture it the way I wanted.

Nice little street somewhere in Setagaya.

Another one from my window. Didn't bother messing around with it in Photoshop, this is just how it was taken.

And here's the view 10 minutes ago from my room. Pretty cool. Guess this is what the sky looks like after a typhoon.

No idea what was going on today but there was a queue of several hundred people to get into Krispy Kreme in Shinjuku today. The queue went round the corner, across a bridge and continued back for a couple of hundred metres.

I didn't realise doughnuts were so popular...

Right before the storm clouds opened, the sky got extremely dark. But, as the sky behind me was still blue, this building's reflective windows stood out quite well.

Same motorway ramp as before, this time from underneath.

Even though I was running late, while wandering across Kounan-Ohashi, I had to take a photo of Yurikamome, A great big round-in-a-circle motorway on/off ramp. It heads onto Rainbow Bridge but I couldn't get any decent shots of that, it's too big.

More of an instructional shot than anything arty. This is taken at eye-level.

Note to self: Duck.

The grey strip is a handy bit of rubber some kind soul put there to make sure it's not as painful walking into the door as it could have been.

Yeah, I know, Edinburgh gets it fair share of rain, too. But this is like switching on a shower. And then all of a sudden it stops. Kind of like switching off a shower...

Don't have a clue what they're called but they're big and shiny.

They could be Big Telephone Things, I guess.

Of course, with Japan's tendency to have all the cabling overhead (as opposed to the UK's underground cabling), it does mean that this is right outside my window. I could touch it if I were so inclined. And it's dripping wet.

I'm not 100% sure if this is a good thing..

One of those bits that joins cable to other cables.

Just some traffic on my street at night time.

Standing outside the Tokyo Regional Government buildings looking towards the Imperial Palace. The government buildings themselves were quite impressive but I didn't want to risk upsetting the stern-looking guards standing outside them by taking any photos in their direction.

And now for dinner...umai desu...

And into the pan you go...

And this is just to prove that I'm not just eating noodles and tuna.

Beef, Ginger, Garlic, Shoyu, Mirin

View from the right window of the office

View from the left window of the office.

And this is the exceptionally tall building I work in. It's very very tall.

It's probably not a good thing when your food has 'Unidentified' written on it...

Tasty, tasty noodles. Looked all around the flat but couldn't find any chopsticks. Oh well.

Just my shower curtain.

I have no idea. Tried my best to figure out what this box was for. I know that if I press a random sequence of buttons, hot water comes out of the shower. But if I press another random sequence of buttons, I get a voice telling me I've done something wrong. But I'm not sure what...

It's too small to show anything other than the bottom of the desk. No, really.

It's tiny. This photo's taken from the bedroom. You've got the oven, microwave, fridge, front door, several different recycling bins and some very complicated insructions on what and how to recycle.

And, of course, the TV showing anime on prime-time Saturday night. Now that, I like.

The floor of my bedroom. That is all. Instead of tatami, it's floorboards and instead of a futon, it's a bed. Not as much traditional japanese styling as I'd have hoped for but, hey...

There was some bizarre Bazaar on in the park. Couldn't quite figure out what was going on but I did manage to get this photo of a Sun. It's either cute or scary. I'm not sure which yet.

First thing I did after moving into my apartment was have a little wander around the park next door. It's very nice.