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As those of you who have been following the blog for a while might be aware, my usual mode of doing this is to take photos during my travels, upload them to the cloud with hotel wifi, and then put the photos into empty blog posts, leaving them open in the browser. 

Then when I'm on the Shinkansen between cities and I have a couple of dead hours, I bust out the laptop and put text into the post. 

Apparently, for Emma some of you who have been following the blog for a while, this isn't good enough, so here's a post to tide you over for a few days until I catch the train to Kyoto.

The sunset from the plane as we were coming in to land.

It's the start of spring, so the circular area in Tokyo station is appropriately gussied up.

There was a Spring Festival at Senso-Ji temple in Asakusa

I was promised a Dragon by the internet, but I must have missed it. All I got was all these people and dozens and dozens of food stalls and souvenir shops. 

The commercial area (O-yane plaza apparently) in the Roppongi Hills shopping center (where Ken and I tried frozen beer) had a promotional thing for a new flavor of Mogitate. 11am strikes me as too early to be drinking on a weekday...

I went to an exhibit of works by Hokusai, but since I was only allowed to take a photo of one thing, you get not much.

You'll be aware of Hokusai, You've almost certainly seen the Great Wave off Kanigawa, from 36 views of Mt. Fuji, a series of 46 landscapes so named because
a) they feature Mt Fuji, and
b) Hokusai couldn't count,
but you've probably seen some of his other works, The Priest Kobo Dashi Exorcising a Demon, The Fisherman's wife's Hentai Collection, or Noto no Kami Noritsune Showing his Valor. No his other Valor.

the Photo I was allowed to take

The Great Wave off Kanigawa, stolen from wikipedia so that you don't have to go look it up.

A small pond, seemingly un-noteworthy

Except it contains Space Fish!
But hang on, they're not even space fish, merely the decendants of space fish.
Go sit in the corner with Jeffery Schuss.

Have some sakura blossoms to tide you over.