Tokyo Scenery, Winter 2021, Part 2
Here’s a little collection of Tokyo scenes. Honestly there’s no great meaning to them, and a few of the shots repeat, but everyday life doesn’t keep repeating forever… someday I might f…
Here’s a little collection of Tokyo scenes. Honestly there’s no great meaning to them, and a few of the shots repeat, but everyday life doesn’t keep repeating forever… someday I might f…
I have friends in Yokohama, so I went over to hang out with them. The Ferris wheel A cable car (or is it a gondola..) Turns out you have to queue for this one too. It’s a classic date course, so there …
If there is one place in Kyoto I most want to visit, I think it would be Nanzen-ji. It must be that distinctive Taisho-era mood it has. The eras before that never quite click with me, either.. A cat on the way…
When you’re picking sightseeing spots in Kyoto, it’s best to plan them around food. Eat something good, see something good… In that sense Heian Jingu is a solid pick — there’s plenty to…
Say “Toji” and a Korean speaker thinks of the word for land, but it is the Japanese reading of 東寺, the temple in the east. It was right by Hatoya, so I popped over for a bit in the morning. On the …
Kyoto Tower It looks even more beautiful at night. Alley Alley Alley Alley Shijo This is the main downtown street. Around Gion Alley Yasaka Shrine Kyoto has plenty to see at night, too. …
I got into a taxi after arriving in Kyoto. I had originally been thinking of going to Kiyomizu-dera, but the driver recommended Kinkaku-ji. He said they had recently re-applied the gold leaf. So I changed my d…
In Kyoto I picked a place to stay near the station. That has its upsides and its downsides. Shijo or Karasuma, where most of the sights are clustered, is the better base if you’re going to do serious sig…
Nothing special, just some scenery I passed by, snapped and am putting up here. Scenery Scenery Scenery Scenery Scenery Scenery Scenery in central Hamamatsu The classic look of a small provincial city, …
Tokyo Tower at night Tokyo Tower in the daytime Sunset over Shibaura Shibaura at night The iPhone’s camera is so good that even a careless snap comes out nicely.. A scene from Isetan No matter how b…
In case you are wondering what senbero is, it comes from sen-en = a thousand yen and bero = bero-bero, blind drunk: a shop where a thousand yen is enough to get you there. It means a cluster of down-to-earth i…
The queue I left in November, and the crowds had grown a lot. Back then I still thought the pandemic would be over soon.. instead it turned out I had caught the last train in. Duty-free shop They are still o…