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Tokyo Outside First Hotel 28 Oct 2007
Note that the man in the foreground is a scoutmaster (one of his scouts is also in the photo). Also, notice how Japanese and English are mixed in the sign above the costumed character's head (this was common). I believe that particular type of Japanese script is called hiragana (or maybe hirakana) -- they have something like four types of "alphabets". I don’t recall the name of that first hotel in Tokyo, but it was new construction and was adjacent to an equally new office building called Thinkpark Tower, which was, in turn, adjacent to the Osaki (railroad) Station. I don’t think I was ever really on the Tokyo subway during this trip, only on Japan Rail. However, Japan Rail seems to operate just like a subway system inside the city.
It appeared the name Thinkpark Tower was always written in Engish – there did not appear to be an equivalent name in any of their other type of characters or scripts.
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