Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Mikiro, > It is a pity that you leave before new year holidays, which are the most > special (and phogogenic) time of the year in Japan (like Christmas in > occidental countries). Nevertheless, during your stay, you can enjoy special > atmosphere of the year-end (toshi-no-se) in markets where people buy new > year ornaments and food to make "osechi-ryori" with, particularly in down > town area (Ueno, Asakusa, et al.) > > There is a big photo museum (Tokyo-to Shashin Bijutsukan, or Metropolitan > Museum of Photography) in Ebisu (near Shibuya) and many many small galleries > that would interest you. I cannot give you detailed info because I do not > live there now. > > Tokyo is a Leica heaven. Just walk around Ginza area and you will find a > dozen camera shops displaying a variety of Leicas. New items are reasonably > priced (a gray market M6 is sold for around 1600 euro), while old ones, > particularly collector's items are very expensive. Lemon Co. > (http://www.lemonsha.com) used to be a place I haunted. It is worth a visit. Thank you for all this valuable information! Too bad lemonsha is in japanese only - I couldn't find an english link... I won't throw the first stone as my exhibition site is french only at this time... > > I enjoyed your site very much. C'est cool. Thank you, I'll work on an english version as soon as I have some time! Tarek - --------------------------------------------------------- Tarek Charara L'expo continue sur/The exhibition continues at http://www.orients-unis.net