Golden Buddha statues

The building in which these are housed.

Posted on December 15th, 2014 under Japan. Tags: buddhist, fukuoka, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600, Shofukuji 聖福寺. Comments Off on Butsuden Hall

Daishoin steps in the rain (Miyajima, Japan)

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Sometimes, when you are navigating slippery, rocky steps in the rain, you need someone to watch out for you.

Posted on December 12th, 2014 under Japan. Tags: buddhist, Daishoin 大聖院, miyajima, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Watch your step

Koyasan’s famous Japanese cemetery

One of my favorite places on this earth is this cemetery in the mountains of Japan. I’m dying to return.

Posted on December 9th, 2014 under Japan. Tags: cemetery, koyasan 高野山, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600, okunoin japanese cemetery 奥の院. Comments Off on Okunoin (奥の院)

History lesson in Toyota Museum (Nagoya, Japan)

These types of museums aren’t normally my thing, but when you don’t have any plans on a brutally hot and humid summer day in Nagoya this is a decent place to be. Unlike the museums I visited on this same trip in Korea, this one had air conditioning. I had no desire to leave.

Part of this museum deals with Toyota’s first business (when they were known as Toyoda), the mechanical loom. The rest is, of course, about the automobiles and includes many early models. Japanese models/tour guides are happy to tell you more than you’d like to know about the cars. I don’t know if the models speak English, but most of the displays are in (broken) English as well as Japanese.

Posted on December 4th, 2014 under Japan. Tags: museums, nagoya, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600, toyota museum. Comments Off on Toyota Museum (トヨタ博物館)

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Posted on December 3rd, 2014 under Japan. Tags: baseball, nagoya, Nikon AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED Telephoto Lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Cheer Dragons