On this page are some scenes in Tokyo. Included are Shinjuku station, Asakusa, and dinner at a dojo restaurant.
At Shinjuku station the homeless live in cardboard boxes
Some of the boxes are decorated quite nicely
In the evening we visited Asakusa. It was raining
Yohiko and sister Michie at the shopping mall
Lanterns at the Asakusa temple
While Yoshiko went out for an Okanomiyaki dinner with her artist friends, Michie treated Steve to dinner at a Dojo restaurant. Dojo are small fish , called "loach" in English. Dojo are "Any of various Eurasian and African freshwater fishes of the family Cobitidae, having barbels around the mouth." It was Steve's first experience.
Michie preparing the dojo
A close view of the dojo cooking over the hibachi. These dojo have been cleaned and are splayed flat for cooking.
Michie is warming her hands over the hibachi.
Steve is enjoying his dojo dinner with sake. (Thank you, Michie, for the sake and the beer, too.)
Others in the restaurant also enjoyed their dojo. These men spent several hours there and consumed several servings of dojo and prodigeous amounts of beer and sake.
These dojo are cooked whole (and are not 'cleaned'). At Michie's request I tried these. Real aficionados like them this way the best.
