I love Tokyo!

Look at those lights – what a vibrant, exciting, uniquely original city! So many reasons to love Tokyo, but this post looks at one of the most unique areas of of the city: Golden Gai!

First, here is what Tokyo looks like in the daytime…this is from my hotel room on the 31st floor – looking out at the Shinjuku district of Tokyo…

At the bottom of the shot you can see Shinjuku’s train station – it is the world’s busiest subway – and it is also amazingly clean and quiet…really amazing when you look past my blurry shot of us stuffed on a train and check out these statistics!

Serving as the main connecting hub for rail traffic between central Tokyo and its western suburbs, the station was used by an average of 3.64 million people per day in 2007, making it, by far, the world’s…