Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line, Shibuya Station

A bench designed after space ship.

http://www.hankomark.com/

On a wall of a noodle shop in Tokyo-2

More signs and a menu on the wall.

On a wall of a noodle shop in Tokyo

Interesting old Japanese AD signs are posted.

Konbu (Kelp)

People eat many kinds of seaweeds in Japan kelp is one of them.

Seaweed is good for health especially for hair.

It will be cooked with Sake(Rice Wine) and Shoyu(Soy Sauce).

Kimono Recycle

Coin purse made with recycled Kimono cloth.

The small bell is a good luck charm.

Peko-chan

You can buy sweets shaped like Peco-chan only at a Fujiya Store in IIdabashi.

stone-roasted sweet potato

Typical tea time sweets during winter.

You can buy it at a greengrocer's shop or from a cart on a street.

Another day in SensouJi

Goju no To (five-story pagoda) at Sensou-Ji

Manneken Pis, New Year Version!

This time he has a company!

Hot Spring in Yunishigawa

Yunishigawa is located in the city if Nikko and is well known for its hot spring.

Senryo, a typical plant use for New Year Docoration

Senryo is 千両 in Kanji.

千 means one thousand.

両 is an old currency used in Edo Shogunate Period.

2009, the year of the Ox

迎春（Welcoming New Year)

If you order cappuccino at Aux Bacchanales http://www.auxbacchanales.com/ in New Year Holiday Season, you will get this ↑

It says 迎春.(Direct translation would be Welcoming Spring. This is because in old Japanese calender, new years started in the early spring.)

Osechi

Japanese Traditional Food for New Year.

Happy New Year!

May year 2009 bring you a lot of happiness! Hatsumoude (First visit to a Shrine or a Temple at the begining of the year.) at Sensouji