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This is a little overdue, but I still wanted to post a few photos from my trip to Tokyo for New Year's weekend.

I absolutely loved the place. One of the best cities I've ever traveled to. Tokyo is energetic and incredibly chaotic, but its frenzy moves with a gracefulness absent in places like New York and Beijing. All the food was amazing, the sprawling urban landscape startingly beautiful and the women absolutely gorgeous. Anyway, here you go. (Sorry, i just realized how many photos I posted ... enjoy.)

One of the first things we did when we got to town was eat at a conveyor belt sushi place.



My uncle took us to eat fugu the first night we were there. Very tasty - although we were a bit alarmed when some woman passed out and had to be taken to the hospital via ambulance. I shrugged my shoulders and kept eating anyway.



A view of an antenna ... and Mt. Fuji against a nice sunset.



Big ferris wheel by Toyota's Megaweb.



It was crowded EVERYWHERE we went. This is the electronics district, the name of which now escapes me (Akihabura?).



Time Out's Tokyo guide says, "Gaspanic is the place where young people go to grope other young people." I didn't grope anyone, but I got really drunk here.



Still trying to figure this one out myself. Apparently dressing up on New Year's Eve is the big thing there.



The Harujuku girls are apparently famous for their tradition of getting decked out in goth and hanging out on a bridge near the Meiji Shrine.



The Shibuya crossing where Bill Murray and Scarlett Johannson (sp) run across the street in Lost in Translation.



Lastly, I loved the architecture of the city's buildings.