Tokyo en photos
Matrix Reloaded is out since this week end. Seemingly, already full booked for the next 3 weeks (almost not exagerated). I like quite a lot the movie posters, quite cool, and I guess, from the number of those you can find in Shibuya, that this second Matrix will be a huge blockbuster… I think I’ll go for the motorbike scene… or Monica Bellucci ….
Links:
– Download the Animatrix at: Into The Matrix
– The Matrix Ducati 996 (seemingly, Ducati doesn’t want to sell their new 999).
Some pictures taken today while driving around: Roppongi Hills, the now famous new Prada Shop (Designed by Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron, Switzerland. Cost around $85 million. Opening June 6th 2003. 3,500 Visitors for the opening week end), and two anonymous trains…
A nice cafe in Harajuku, Tokyo Apartment Cafe, we go quite often with Eddie and Thierry. The atmosphere is cool, quite 70’s like. I love this decoration, and especially the part on the picture, quite relaxing for a talk after work.
Today’s « meeting » was mainly website related. Thierry is building a high-potential website, but still under construction at this time. High potential as it’s already 3 years it has been started, but he has always been keeping the secret on the content… Anyway, we’ll just have to wait (2 more years???)
Above some of pictures of today’s nomikai in one of the « Student » izakaya in Shinjuku. Thanks to Sylvain and Ken kun for the organization. It was nice. As expected, everybody was drunk enough to take the train at 10h30…. Pictures include Guillaume, Hisashi, Hitomi, Yumi, Sylvain, Ken, Aki, Sawako… OK, pictures are taken with my Clie (Eddie, I think this justifies my « Powered by Clie » banner, no?), so the quality of the pictures is quite poor. It’s quite handy though, as I would probably not have brought my D30.
Back from Shirakawa-Go, I have been looking on the web at Unesco sites I haven’t visited yet in Japan.
Looking at the list below from the Unesco website,
I realised that I have not seen much yet…
Next will be this Ryukyu Island near Ishigaki, I guess…
– Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area (1993 )
– Himeji-jo (1993)
– Yakushima (1993)
– Shirakami-Sanchi (1993)
– Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities) (1994)
– Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama (1995)
– Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) (1996)
– Itsukushima Shinto Shrine (1996)
– Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara (1998)
– Shrines and Temples of Nikko (1999)
– Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (2000)