A Day in Makuhari
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 …
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…
I finally went to Shinjuku Gen, the ramen shop yepok strongly recommended to me a while ago. It’s a Hokkaido-style ramen shop. It had moved from its original spot, so I had a bit of trouble finding it, b…
Even after buying a book on Tokyo’s good eats and flipping through it, Shibuya doesn’t really have many places worth going to. As befits a young people’s neighborhood, most of the famous spot…
Just because a place is a chain with branches everywhere doesn’t mean it’s as bland as McDonald’s. That’s especially true in Japan: at places like Pepper Lunch, the tendon (tempura rice…
On this trip back to Korea, I went to Kanji Gogo, a Chinese restaurant on the way from COEX Mall into the Oakwood hotel. I’d originally planned to have the lunch course at Mokran in Apgujeong, but the me…