Kyoto and Tokyo

Some pictures of a pachinko parlour that we visited. The Japanese enjoy a little gambling and it is through the Pachinko games. I tried it, and spent 1000 yen, which is about just over 8 dollars. I had no idea what i was doing, but it was fun and all these steel balls bouncing and lights and sounds. You just have to try it for yourself for the experience.
Later, we packed up and headed back to Tokyo for the rest of the trip, but first back at the kyoto trainstation to catch the super fast Shinkansen(bullet train), with speeds of over 160mph, we arrived back in Tokyo in just over 2 hours.
a few pix of the station, kiosk, and the train we rode on.
And some pictures of tokyo. Tokyo is huge as you can tell from some of the pictures. The highrise buildings, the big advertisments on the buildings and there is one picture that has a big huge tv screen on it. I took a picture infront of a pastry shop that sells delicious waffle pastries. I went here during my first time out in the summer of 2003 to Japan. This shop is in Ginza, maybe a few blocks down from the Sony building. I took a picture this time around, and had a chocolate covered waffle for about.....175 yen, maybe $1.65, it was so good.