Tokyo–March 26, 2016

Last full day in Tokyo. I went back to Akusaka and got some more pictures of the shrine and the surrounding area. Including (last picture) the world’s largest pork cutlet.

window art arcade sign with cats post box with panda figurine atop colorful posters in traditional japanese style buddha seated buddha poster of face in traditional japanese style toy monkey in display case monkey figurines in display case cat figurines in restaurant display case painted cow statue painted cow sculpture painted sliding door fat fish statue above restaurant worlds largest tonkatsu

A couple of statues had red cloth over them; not sure what the significance was. Update: My brother found a link to an explanation.

mother child statue in red shawl buddha statue with red bib

I had some taiyaki; here are my pictures of the mold and the final product (Wikipedia’s pictures are better).

tai yaki molds tai yaki

Sorry there aren’t more pictures, but I decided to wind things down before leaving on Sunday. I did make a short video of the Ameyoko market at night.

Miscellanea

Some utility box stickers.

utility box stickers