He may be small, but he could still 'ave ya.

I bet the guards on the Imperial Palace could 'ave ya as well.

I'd be happy enough to live here if I were an emperor too.

Talk about your contrived photo shots.

This guy fought in support of the restoration of the Emperor until the Emperor started saying that first thing he'd do would be to greatly reduce the powers of the samurai class, so he switched sides, got beaten and ritually disembowelled himself. But before all that he liked walking his dog.

Sandal shops of old Tokyo!

This doggy lived in the '20s and used to come to the train station every evening to meet his owner. Then its owner died, but the doggy kept turning up every day until its own death about ten years later. Sure enough, if anybody was going to commemorate that kind of loyalty with a statue, it's the Japanese...

Admit it, this is the stereotypical Tokyo photo you wanted to see...

You're daaaamn right.

Seriously, this town just has the bloody best statues.