Cherry Blossom Viewing by Night
The highlight of cherry blossom viewing is the night. I remember going out to Yeouido around blossom time last year to take pictures too.. Expecting the same kind of thing in Japan.. I went to Yoyogi Park. I s…
The highlight of cherry blossom viewing is the night. I remember going out to Yeouido around blossom time last year to take pictures too.. Expecting the same kind of thing in Japan.. I went to Yoyogi Park. I s…
Today (well, actually yesterday) was the best day to see the cherry blossoms in Tokyo. Well… the day before was probably good too, but that wasn’t a day off… After a late breakfast I slung my…
Maywa Denki is an art performance band that’s also a company, and they’re active internationally. Back home in Korea they’re a little known too, as the company that makes seemingly useless to…
This is the University of Tokyo, which I wandered into after getting lost on my way from Kanda to Ueno Park. I usually don’t rely on maps and just find my way by feel, but when it’s cloudy or dark …
Somehow I ended up hitting both a top-class soba shop and a top-class ramen shop in Tokyo on the same day. The details as we go through the photos.. For lunch I went to Kanda Yabu Soba. I head to Kanda regula…
On the way home, I stopped by the port. On the road to the port… The port tower (Chiba Port Tower, a local landmark in its own way) A view inside the park, with the port behind Boats and the pier Bo…
All photos were shot on an istDS with a 50mm F1.4, with no edits at all other than resizing. I heard the cherry blossoms were out at Chiba Port Park, so I headed over late at night. I left around 10 p.m. and g…
These are photos I took at lunchtime today. All of them were shot on the istDS with a 50mm f/1.4, and apart from resizing I haven’t processed them at all. I stepped out of the office for lunch, and the …
Here’s Yokohama at night. By this point I was running out of steam.. so I honestly don’t remember much about how I took these shots.. -_-;; The famous Ferris wheel (Cosmo Clock 21). Supposedly the…
This park is called Harbor View Park (Minato-no-Mieru-Oka Park). Cross a bridge from Chinatown and you reach Motomachi, the designer-brand shopping street, and at the far end of Motomachi there’s a hill …
This is Yokohama Chinatown. I’ve been to Kobe’s Chinatown once before, but Yokohama Chinatown is a good two or three times bigger than Kobe’s. It was the weekend, so it was packed with people…
I went to Yokohama on Saturday. Yokohama, Kobe and Chiba have something in common: all three are port cities. (Though as ports go, they’re nothing like Incheon -_-) Yokohama and Kobe are alike in a lot o…