Sunset at the Akashi Bridge

Well I was bored on a Saturday and decided to go take pictures of the worlds longest suspension bridge at sunset:

Composed of 24 seperate images shot with my Nikon D700 and Nikon 50mm f/1.4 (set at f/4) 

The final resolution of that image, not scaled down was 14039x40xx pixels

Hope you enjoyed... more photos later

Sightseeing with @

Today I went to the zoo and to the top of the rokko cable car (pictures in no particular order)

Sleepy panda is sleepy

Mo-chan (aka Johnny) and Nyago

Hard life of a polar bear

Me v. Koala Bear :P

and off we go to Rokko Cable car station!

Moe Moe joined us

so did Charlie-san

View from the cable car

Fu-chan and Moe Moe

Sono-chan striking a pose (pretending to be a model) :P

We meet again Mr. ITR

EAT MORE CHIKIN!

Hope you enjoyed
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Tokyo v2

got back from tokyo this morning, already edited and uploaded the pictures so here we go

first, the main reason i went to tokyo was to visit some good friends who I met at Mississippi State. I got to see everyone except Kaori :( but hopefully I'll get to visit again soon and she won't be so busy

Night One: Korean food

Everyone (minus fumi and kaori + Park-san)

Appetizer

Main Course, pork, onion etc

Looks like Mayato winking at Haruka?

Park-san and Myself

The night ended with Me, Toshiko, Mayato and Haruka doing Purikura:

All the editing done by Haruka and Toshiko

Day 2:
I went to visit Meisei University where they all go/went to university. I was allowed to sit in on Haruka and Toshiko's 4th period and Haruka, Toshiko and Fumi's 5th period.

The monorail headed for Meisei

View from the monorail as I arrived at Meisei

First view of the campus after exiting the monorail (i believe that is the gymnasium)

Campus Map
 (I met Haruka and Toshiko near the fountain)

Longhorns at Meisei?!

After 5th period their friend Chiho drove us to Fumi's part time job for dinner. I hadn't realized how much I missed riding in a car

The free "appetizer" that comes when you order alcohol

Salad

Chicken and potatoes

Bacon and Egg Pizza 

The aftermath

Me and Haruka

Me and Toshiko

Toshiko, Me, Haruka, and Fumi

Day 3
Top Secret Engineering, thanks to Shunsuke for helping me arrange everything

Smokey doing some tuning to the Top Secret GT-R

Customer Supra with Smokey in the background

After the visit to Top Secret I didn't feel like paying for a cab back, so I walked and took some pics along the way

Day 4
Random wandering around, Shinjuku, Shibuya and Harajuku

Shinjuku

Random Evo IV

On my way to Shinjuku Station to go to Shibuya

In Shibuya

not sure why but i found this amusing 

Street crossing outside of Shibuya station

Harajuku

Crowded street full of shops

Advertising.... something?

Big Wheel indeed

Back in Shinjuku, wandering around till my bus comes at 11:50pm

Mad Hatter and Captain Jack Sparrow..... helping advertise

and one benefit of taking the midnight bus.... when it stops at 5:30 for bathroom break you get to see the sunrise in the land of the rising sun