Tokyo - Old meets new

I wrote a while back about how we felt that India was a country of fine balances - which it certainly was. It is difficult not to say the same thing about Japan as well. It is an east-meets-west / old-meets-new / ease-meets-difficulty kind of place (I have never been in a country in which it is so easy to get around and so hard to order food.)
As Vee mentioned below, our first stop was Tokyo, which ranks as one of my favourite cities in the world. She also spoke of how easily it is to walk between serene garden and crazy-bright-lights neighbourhoods, and these photos attempt to show that. The first is of Hibiya park, which was about a two minute walk from our hotel which was a five minute walk from a train station. The next two are of Shinjuku Imperial Gardens (Shinjuku is the "Manhattan" neighbourhood of Tokyo). I will post a couple more photos from these gardens, but I've included them here because there are skyscrapers in the background. The last two are of a fountain park that was across the street from the Imperial Palace.
It is truly amazing to be in a place where you can watch Avatar in 3D after walking through a zen garden not five minutes prior.