. : Gaijin-Ninjin a Photoblog in Tokyo : .: Omote-sando and shibuya (japan @ 10mm)

Ok so i slept in a little and i was unsure what to do today, so i put on BBC's 'Japanorama' presented by the awsome Johnathan Ross and 1/2 through one of episodes he mentioned and i quote "Here's a bold statement for you, Japanese architects are the most ordatious and inventive in the world today" he then goes on to say the best collection is in the Omote-sando district. So this was my plan for the day, i reliease that it is not so far from Shibuya and if i had known about it better i would maybe have just walked from shibuya one day. I guess part of my trip is to explore Japan for myself rather than only visit the best places in my guide book, which i have seen all i that interests me accept the Leica Gallary in Ginza.

My 20mm Lumix lens would be nice for shooting but i wanted to go even wider so what better excuse than to actually use the D70 on my 10mm lens. I also plan to take shots with the Nikon on Akiba with my 50mm as i always thought this lens handled lighting really well.

Here are a few i took on my wonderings
ah as my room is small the 10mm really helps to show the place as a whole something which my other shots couldn't

my room dosen't seam that small to me, the floor is 6 tatami mats, where as my room at home would only be about 4.

my flat mate told me that Oshiage where we are living is sometimes refered to as 'the country side' to people living in inner-tokyo, something which i find halerious when i go outside and see a 30-40+ floor building. As i live in the countryside, and my view from home is just of fields its really hits home how urban inner Tokyo is.

The 10mm is great for showing the streets of Tokyo i need to shoot more with it i think. This is the view of a street i need to walk down everyday to get to the station. It is about 400m long, and has 2 vending machines along the path. If you take the parallel street there are another 2 machines. Also one evening i was walking down and noticed they were tarmacing the road fresh, they were finished in a night. This just shows the speed of their workmanship. In England (i cant say for the larger cities) but in my small town the main road into town was tarmaced it took them a week during the summer and it was about the same distance as here.

the TV mast which is being build will be the largest in Japan, im not sure how much further they are building but they will be another 2 years before completion so i can imagine a lot higher!

stupid dirty sensor!

As night time game i decided to walk to a close station, i got a few 10mm street shot, then headed towards shibuya to try capture the crossing at night with the wide-angle.