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Fantoft stavkirke
Some people would say that hanging out in the woods as the sun sets behind the Fantoft Stave Church, site of the infamous 1992 arson, is a little creepy. I found it to be exhilarating. I wanted to wait for darkness as there appeared to be some spotlights. However, I didn’t want to miss the last tram back to my hotel, and it was already approaching midnight.
Mt. Fuji (富士山) is on the right of this photo in the distance. The building in the center with the tall smokestack is the Meguro Incinerator. One of these days I’ll have to tell you about the incinerator tour I went on in Japan.
Some Japanese vocabulary for those of you learning Japanese at the moment…
sunset = yuuyake = 夕焼け (literally: evening burn)
crescent moon = mikazuki = 三日月 (literally: three day moon)
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A couple weeks ago I showed a photo of the sunrise/sunset as I flew from the USA to Europe overnight near the Summer solstice. At one point on that plane, the wing perfectly blocked the sun from glaring up my window so I could take this picture. The land you see below the horizon is Greenland, partially covered in clouds or fog it appears.
I happened to be flying from the USA to northern Europe just a day or two after last year’s Summer solstice. The plane flew over the bottom of Greenland and I was sitting in a window seat on the left side of the plane. The sun never completely set. Today’s photo is about as low as the sun got in the sky before rising once again.
That’s the Park Hyatt Tokyo on the far left, famous, in part, because of its prominent role in the movie, Lost in Translation.
Mt. Fuji sunset from inside the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building
