Pictures!

Finally, here are a small group of the photos I've been promising. I didn't want to overload you, so I kept the numbers down.

Here are some recent photos taken with my nice new camera:

• Kawaguchi Jinja (the local shrine)
  
• Phillip at Tsukiji Honten (the best rotating sushi bar)
  
• The Yamanote Line (that rings central Tokyo)
  

These were taken with a lousy camera built-in to a cellphone on a trip to Nikko. The quality is not so great:

• The Japanese countryside (lots of rice paddies)
  
• The famous hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil monkeys (these guys are over three hundred years old)
  
• An elaborate gate
  
• A close-up of an elaborate dog
  
• Many lanterns and some trees
  
• Some more lanterns
  
• Daniel, Phillip, and Fabian (my good German friends)