Japan - Yonezawa, Tokyo, Iizuka and Amanohashidate

SENDAI	View of Sendai from the Castle Site Hill	Sendai Station and Matt	The shrine at the site of Sendai castle	Date Masamune (a powerful feudal lord of Sendai!)	Date Masamune on a horse (at the site of Sendai Castle).
SENDAI	On Kyogamine Hill where the tomb of Date Masamune is.	The Zuihoden Mausoleum on Kyogamine Hill	Very colorful decorations on the mausoleum	Strange small cars for 1 person "Midget II"
Maizuru (Kyoto-ken)	In the high speed Nozomi Shinkansen	The train bound for Maizuru at Kyoto Station	The Noodle Factory in Maizuru. High quality very tasty fresh noodles.	The Shochu Bar in Maizuru	The Shochu Bar in Maizuru
Maizuru (Kyoto-ken)	Maizuru Seaside	A stingray in Maizuru Harbor	A picturesque pagoda in Maizuru	A picturesque pagoda in Maizuru
Amano-hashidate	The Amanohashidate tourist sightseeing map	The 3.6 km stretch of land is covered in pine trees	On one side there is a sandy beach	We took the chair lift up to the top	The famous view spot
Amano-hashidate	The famous view of Amanohashidate	Pagoda in the forest above Amanohashidate	The fastest way back is the speedboat	Amanohashidate, meaning "bridge of heaven", is a 3.6 kilometers long, pine tree covered sand bar, spanning across Miyatsu Bay on the Tango Peninsula, northern Kyoto Prefecture. It is ranked as one of Japan's three most scenic views! (From Japan-Guide)
Kokura, KitaKyushu	Kokura shopping center Riverwalk Deco City	Me, Tomo and Ban at the Kushiage place	Kokura Castle	At the karaoke snaku in Kokura	Kokura Riverwalk fat hippos
飯塚市 IIZUKA, revisited Dec 2004, Apr 2005, Jan 2006	At Hana Kyabetsu, the friendly food bar	Inside Hana Kyabestu	At Hana Moyo, Yoshiwara-chou
	Me in the office (APR 05)	Me after work drinking Sakura Shochu	Aya-chan, Chika-chan, Me, Yoshie-chan, Ban-chan, Yuko-chan	Karaoke singing
	At Burugari	Close up	LEON at Bar Emulsion		Sunset over Iizuka
	Matsumoto-san's parents' restaurant	Ban-san drank fast! (At Ma-chan's)	We went to ACTIVE ...	... then to BVLGARI ...	...finally to Emulsion / ICE
Tokyo, Roppongi & Ginza	Bvlgari in Ginza	Ginza Bvlgari and me	Sophisticated Bordeaux Bar (Enoteca Wine Shop, next to Bvlgari)	Suzuki-san, Ban-san and me at the Hobgoblin, British Pub in Roppongi	We saw famous Sumo wrestler Kotooshu at the Hobgoblin pub in Roppongi
Bernd's Bar (Tokyo, Roppongi)	Matt and Ban have some Bitburger at Bernds Bar in Roppongi	Excellent German sausages	More Bitburger Pils at Bernd's Bar	BERND'S BAR is a friendly German Bar and Restaurant in Roppongi with excellent German beer, wine and German food.	At Starbucks, Roppongi
Tokyo, Asakusa Senso-jo Temple	The Kaminarimon Gate (Senso-ji Temple)	Asakusa - the huge lantern	Many souvenir shops at Senso-ji (Nakamise-dori)	Hozo-mon Gate and the five-storey pagoda at Senso-ji	Senso-ji Temple Main Hall during festival (21-MAY-2005)
Yonezawa 米沢市 Uesugi Shrine & Waterfall / Hotspring Yonezawa Info	Uesugi Shrine	Uesugi Shrine	Uesugi Shrine at night in the snow!!	Tons of snow at Uesugi Shrine (MAR 2005)	Aburiya あぶりや
	Bridge next to Uesugi Shrine in Matsugasaki Park (Map)	Me on the Uesugi Shrine bridge in the snow	The same bridge in the snow (MAR 2005)	The Japanese garden next to the restaurant	The excellent izakaya (pub) in Yonezawa called Aburiya あぶりや
	Irori Yakiniku Restaurant	The Yonezawa Beef restaurant is part of the Uesugi Memorial Museum (Map)	Inside the restaurant	Ban-san cooks the Yonezawa beef sukiyaki	Ban-san on the steep path to Shirabu Waterfall
	Irori Yakiniku Restaurant		Shirabu Waterfall	The water was very cold !	The Shirabu Falls
	Irori Yakiniku Restaurant		Raw minced beef at the Irori yakiniku place	Nishiya Ryokan with candles in the snow!!	Nishiya Ryokan at Shirabu Onsen (hotspring / spa)
Yonezawa Snack Bars Karaoke	Snack Bar - BREAK ブレーク (map) Me and a hostess are trying to sing "Titanic"	Snack Bar - BREAK Me and Banbaka are excellent at Karaoke (AUG 04)	Snack Bar - BREAK Banbaka, a nice hostess and his bottle	I have to sing Karaoke at BREAK ! (MAR 05)	More Karaoke
	The staff (Yuka, Ai, Natsumi) at Snack Bar BREAK (MAR 05)	Kleiner Feigling	A ladies' song in Japanese	At BREAK	Snack Bar - AQUARIUS アクエリアス (map) - Mama speaks fluent English
	Snack Bar - New Tropical ニュートロピカル Ao.	Some Kleiner Feigling drink presents	At ROCO	Ban and Kumiko at ROCO	Snack Bar / Lounge PASSION LADY &ション・レディ (map) Machiko-chan speaks no English at all
	Me and a crazy cutomer at BREAK doing Karaoke	Banbaka's BIRTHDAY Cake. Baked by BREAK hostesses. N i c e.	These are two experts at English Karaoke
In Flight	Lufthansa First Class	ANA First Class Video, light chop		All Nippon Airways First Class	ANA First Class
In Flight	Lufthansa First Class	ANA First Class Video, light chop		ANA First Class	ANA First Class
Lufthansa Boeing 747-400 at Frankfurt AIrport	View of wing of Lufthansa Airbus A340-300	View from the plane of Siberia, many ox-bow lakes	Frozen rivers in Siberia	Ice breaking up near Finland (APR 05)	ANA First Class