Jet-lagged, we had no problems in getting up at 4am - in time for the
Tsukiji fish market, the largest market in Tokyo. Big tuna...


... and lots of them, all being auctioned to eager buyers.


By 6am, the tuna is already being sliced up and prepared for sushi.


Not only the tuna is big. Here is a one-foot muscle.


Tokyo's equivalent of the Eiffel Tower.

Maria posing... on the left with Robert Pershing Wadlow, 8 feet 11.1
(2.72m), the tallest ever recorded human being... and on the right with
Asimo (strange, he seemed to get everywhere!)


The Mori Tower in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo.




Views from the top of the Mori Tower.