{"id":3713,"date":"2009-11-20T09:29:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T16:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:04:16","slug":"waseda-university-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/waseda-university-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Waseda University &#8211; Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/15101538trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/15101538trim-800x498.jpg\" alt=\"mt. fuji covered in snow in fall with autumn colors from waseda university in tokyo japan\" title=\"mt. fuji covered in snow in fall with autumn colors from waseda university in tokyo japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/15101538trim-800x498.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/15101538trim-250x155.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/15101538trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Continuing <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/waseda-university-part-2\/>the series<\/a> on Waseda University, I went for a Sunday morning walk on campus earlier this week. The trees were changing colors so I decided to head to high ground in Building 11 for an interesting angle on the fall colors that I will show you in a future blog entry.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised to see Mt. Fuji out the west-facing windows as well. This was my first sighting of Mt. Fuji before dusk from Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>If you make this image larger (by clicking on it), you can see a McDonald&#8217;s to the left&#8211;the same one as shown <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/golden-arches-and-the-mirrored-gray-arch\/>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/15100828.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/15100828-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"Building 11 Waseda University SILS Tokyo Japan\" title=\"Building 11 Waseda University SILS Tokyo Japan\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/15100828-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/15100828-187x250.jpg 187w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/15100828.JPG 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Above is Building 11, where I teach two classes a week. Building 11 is home to the School of Commerce, Graduate School of Commerce, Graduate School of Accountancy, Institute of Research in Business Administration, and School of International Liberal Studies (SILS).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/08170748.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/08170748.JPG\" alt=\"Okuma auditorium waseda festival\" title=\"Okuma auditorium waseda festival\" width=\"595\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/08170748.JPG 595w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/08170748-250x189.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The weekend before I took a shot from the top of Building 11 looking down on the Waseda Festival (Wasedasai or \u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u796d). Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t notice my camera settings were messed up, and the photo did not come out well. Students were doing a performance in front of the Okuma Auditorium. Thousands were in attendance. It was crazy walking through the crowds down below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the series on Waseda University, I went for a Sunday morning walk on campus earlier this week. The trees were changing colors so I decided to head to high ground in Building 11 for an interesting angle on the fall colors that I will show you in a future blog entry. I was surprised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[172,131,222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32232,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/32232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}