Tokyo

A Tokyo cab is a thing apart. They are generally clean, well-maintained and piloted by a trustworthy professional. The one we rode today from the end of the subway line out to Tokyo Aquarium in Kassai was a little different than they used to be; there was a plastic safety partition between the driver and passenger compartments.
We are off to Indonesia tomorrow, and I'm not taking either my computer or my digital camera - a totally analog experience! So I'll be signing off for a couple of weeks, and probably won't have much more to add to this blog for the next while.

Three of us in a cab, stuck in traffic.

Apparently some cabs now have a partition between the driver and the passenger compartments - maybe the city isn't as safe as it used to be?

Such cool scooters these days!

A natural gas filling station. Cabs run on liquified natural gas, and more and more buses are using the fuel as well. This should be good for the air; despite the fact that Tokyo (together with Scandinavia) was one of the first areas in the world to adopt the use of low-sulphur diesel, pollution from diesel vehicles is still a huge problem.

A minivehicle with a ski rack.

That big wheel keeps turning... the ferris wheel in Kassai on Tokyo Bay.