View out my hotel window.

Another hotel view.

What can I say, it's a Hello Kitty bus!

Me by the vending machine in the office.  Mostly tea and very little soda.

Outside the office in Marunouchi (Tokyo)

Street in Nara.  

Kinkakuji (Golden Pavilion) in Kyoto.  Retirement house for a Shogun nearly 600 years ago.  The top is covered with gold leaf.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkaku-ji

More grounds of the Golden Pavilion.

Proof I was there!

Drinking ceremonial green tea at Kinkakuji.

Entrance to Kiyomizudera temple. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyomizu-dera

From Kiyomizudera temple you can look back and see the city of Kyoto.

The main hall is one of the largest wooden structures in the world. 

Downtown Kyoto by the train station.

Osaka at night by the big crab.