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…
Pentax *istDS 50mm 1.2 resize only On the way to the seaside park I really need to switch to a pricier filter.. way too much flare. Pentax *istDS 50mm 1.2 resize only The park closes at 5:30, but after wande…
*ist DS + 35mm f/2.0 No retouching, just resized At Yoyogi Park… …
I went to Hiro, a famous Italian restaurant that competes for the number one or two spot even in Tokyo. It’s in the basement of a building right in the middle of a residential area, so it’s a litt…