Japan, 13-24 nov. 2003

After working for a week in Shin Yokohama (during which I took a few photographs) I visited for 3 days such places as Kamata, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Harajuku, Ebisu... (and took plenty of pictures and discarded a lot...). Tokyo and its surroundings are cool places. People (and they are numerous, especially in the trains and in Shibuya) are nice and friendly, and are eager to offer valuable help to the gaijins. Few of the food I could eat, but I tasted everything I was given (anyway, I'm a picky eater everywhere). I was in a large western type hotel for the first part of my stay and moved in a Ryokan for the 4 last days. That was fun. The landlord was very nice, she couldn't understand me and I couldn't understand her but we had long conversations ;-)

Vivien and Hugo shooting

Shibuya

Vivien shooting and Hugo ducking or maybe reloading his gun

Shibuya

Round belly villain awaiting a player to don the boxing gloves

Shibuya

Nicely dressed girl looking at this friends slaying bad guys

Shibuya

Karl holding the W3C goodie fan and closing his eyes

Shin Yokohama

Amy and Saeko setting up the registration desk under Karl's scrutiny

Shin Yokohama

A lot of the staff sitting on the floor in the foyer and mostly working

Shin Yokohama

EricP's touch of class: a suit and tiger furry slippers

Shin Yokohama

Vegetarian dinner time: the dinner is served in red and black wooden bowls. Olivier, Carine, Dom, Karl, Yves, Alexandra seated.

Soji-ji Monastery

My tray

Soji-ji Monastery

Self portrait of me in the bathtub through the ceiling mirror

Shin Yokohama

Foggy view of Fuji-san (Mount Fuji) in the distance

Shin Yokohama

Coloured dots: View from the 5th floor on a large umbrella and tiny coloured tables

Shin Yokohama

Hotel signing with Japanese writing and Roman writing indicating our meeting

Shin Yokohama

Reflection in a wall mirror of me taking the picture, Amy and Max

Shin Yokohama

Alex and Coralie standing next to the W3C AC Meeting Day One poster and wearing a similar suit

Shin Yokohama


Koalie, 2003