Summer Japanese fireworks festival (Hanabi Taikai in Inuyama, Japan)

If you can’t read Japanese, what you can purchase at these temporary shops, set up just for this evening’s event, are buttered potatoes, cold pineapple, yakisoba, and “snowballs.”

Posted on February 22nd, 2014 under Japan. Tags: festivals, inuyama, matsuri, night photography, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on 日本ライン夏まつり納涼花火大会

Crane (鶴) @ Hiroshima bomb site (Motoyasu River)

The atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima had the bridge spanning the Motoyasu River as its target. The bomb didn’t exactly hit its target, but that didn’t matter since it took out everything within a much wider radius. The spot from where I took today’s photo was just below the actual location where the bomb detonated.

Posted on February 21st, 2014 under Japan. Tags: hiroshima, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Crane at Hiroshima’s Ground Zero

Cafe Honky II in the Fukuoka Dome

Not just any white boy can eat in the Cafe Honky II. In order to eat here you have to be a professional baseball player or member of the press in Japan. This is where the players and media eat in the Fukuoka Dome. Oh, and beginning in 2013 you can’t smoke in the Cafe Honky II.

Posted on February 20th, 2014 under Japan. Tags: fukuoka, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Cafe Honky II?

Posted on February 16th, 2014 under Japan. Tags: bokeh, meiji mura, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on The road to the 1885 Higashi-Yamanashi District Office

Kaiganji (海岸寺)

To find a place like this, and dwell there for an hour or so without seeing another soul, not far from the center of Tokyo, with 13+ million people within an hour of your location, is utter bliss.

Posted on February 15th, 2014 under Japan. Tags: buddhist, koganei, pine, thatch roof, Tokyo. Comments Off on Kaiganji