View from our Kanazawa backyard, Japan Morning stretches or synchronized yawning, Kanazawa construction site Which way?...a subway in Kanazawa In Tokyo, on a rainy night Tad was glad to see huge bookstore to browse The Tissue-Marketeers have their morning meeting. These tissue-marketeers were very common in Osaka, Kanazawa, and Tokyo Read this propaganda while you blow your nose, please A rainy day in Tokyo PeaceBiker and the Buddha at Kamakura This Buddha statue was originally enclosed in a temple but it has long since burned to the ground Although two different guidebooks said that this statue weighed 120 tons and 800 tons I figured it was probably over weight limit of my backrack I decided to go behind the statue and lo, I discovered the Buddhas secret to levitation, two sets of flapping wings on his back. (joking kids) After an hour of hauling our bikes across the Tokyo station we squish them in the train car, then the other passengers squished Frank into the corner The last train stopped for the night, one station short of the airport, nobody told us that, so we just slept in the station that night and took the train into the airport the next morning at 6:18