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|  cherry blossom viewing (a great excuse for picnic)
|  more cherry blossom
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|  for a few weeks we walked to the train station in the morning through china town
|  china town can be rather busy |
 heading out to work
|  the shops outside of the hotel
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|  graham & hartmut
|  the usual working lunch (curry) |

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|  we stumbled across this wedding by chance
|  the wedding party
|  the sumo ring (i have a few hundred more pictures somewhere; just haven't had them developed yet)
|  the bride & groom again |
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|  looking towards our hotel from the end of the street |
 view from the other side of the harbour (the new grand - gen. mcarthur's hotel)
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|  just setting up the office cherry blossom viewing picnic
|  the patron saint of schoolgirls
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|  they just set up their instruments on the pavement & started to play
|  a classic tourist photo' :-)
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 sumo - you have to like those pyjamas
|  the grand sumo champs
|  the pre-match warm up
|  the winner!
|  more sumo (early in the day; look at all of those empty seats)
|  let's dance |

|  wallking to work through china town
|  ditto
|  also just outside of the hotel
|  daylight view across the bay from the hotel new grand |