Suidobashi Area

Nakamise Street

This is a famouse place for shopping. You can find a lot of traditional Japanese souvenirs and snacks along this street.

Tokyo Tower 50th Anniversary

Angel Light

Tokyo City View @ Nite

This is taken from Tokyo Tower

Tokyo @ Sunset 2

Tokyo @ Sunset

Beautiful Scenery in the heart of Tokyo

Higashi Gyoen

The 21 hectares (53 acres) of the formal Higashi Gyoen -- once the main grounds of Edo Castle and located next to the Imperial Palace -- are a wonderful respite in the middle of the city. Yet surprisingly, this garden is hardly ever crowded. Ninomaru, my favorite part, is laid out in Japanese style with a pond, steppingstones, and winding paths; it's particularly beautiful when the wisteria, azaleas, irises, and other flowers are in bloom. Near Ninomaru is the Sannomaru Shozokan, with free changing exhibitions of art treasures belonging to the Imperial family.

On the highest spot of Higashi Gyoen is the Honmaru (inner citadel), where Tokugawa's main castle once stood. Built in the first half of the 1600s, the castle was massive, surrounded by a series of whirling moats and guarded by 23 watchtowers and 99 gates around its 16km (10-mile) perimeter. At its center was Japan's tallest building at the time, the five-story castle keep, soaring 50m (168 ft.) above its foundations and offering an expansive view over Edo. This is where Tokugawa Ieyasu would have taken refuge, had his empire ever been seriously threatened. Although most of the castle was a glimmering white, the keep was black with a gold roof, which must have been quite a sight in old Edo as it towered above the rest of the city. All that remains today of the shogun's castle are a few towers, gates, stone walls, moats, and the stone foundations of the keep.

(source: Frommers)

Park Near Imperial Palace

Cafe in Tokyo City View

Tokyo City View

This is the 53rd floor of Mori Art Museum where you view the Tokyo skycrappers! I went there during sunset! Oh.. so romantic!

Man-made lake in Meiji Jingu Koen

River Sumida

The Sumida River (隅田川, Sumida-gawa) is a river which flows through Tokyo, Japan. It branches from the Arakawa River at Iwabuchi and flows into Tokyo Bay. Its tributaries include the Kanda and Shakujii rivers.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Early Autumn @ Ueno Park

I took this picture on 16 Sep 2008 and I could see the red-changing leaves already.

Ueno Park

Ueno Park (上野公園, Ueno Kōen?) is a spacious public park located in the Ueno section of Taito, Tokyo, Japan. It occupies the site of the former Kan'ei-ji, a temple closely associated with the Tokugawa shoguns, who had built the temple to guard Edo Castle against the northeast. The temple was destroyed during the Boshin War.

Ueno Park was established through an imperial land grant to the city of Tokyo by Emperor Taishō in 1924. The official name of the park is Ueno Onshi Kōen (上野恩賜公園, Ueno Onshi Kōen?), which can be translated as "Ueno Imperial Gift Park".

A very famous statue of Saigō Takamori walking his dog stands in this park.

Three museums (Tokyo National Museum, The National Science Museum and The National Museum of Western Art) a concert hall, a Toshogu shrine, the Shinobazu Pond with its Benzaiten shrine, and the Ueno Zoo make this area a tourist and recreation area popular with both Japanese and foreigners.

Steam locomotive in front of the National Science Museum.Ueno Park and its surroundings figure prominently in Japanese fiction, including Gan (The Wild Goose) by Mori Ōgai.

Ueno Park is also home to many homeless people.

(source: Wikipedia)