It feels like it’s 1000 degrees outside here so I’m busy working on our Shutterfly book. We had a message from Dr. Tokaichi (Doug’s former colleague in Saga) who said it was recently 101 there. Since it was very humid every day we were in Japan, I’m assuming it was 101 and humid. Yikes!
Today, I’m posting some pictures I really liked that probably won’t make the Shutterfly book. With 2300 pictures to choose from, something’s got to go but I’m always disappointed to leave some really good ones behind.
This is the entrance to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. The colorful decorations were so eye-catching.
We have SO many great pictures of sushi.
We had two visits to Odaiba when we were in Tokyo. One was during the day and one was in the evening and we enjoyed both! This was one of our afternoon cake/beer/rest periods.
We enjoyed some of the funny English we saw. This would be equivalent to saying Budweiser Loves Sports.
We have so many pictures of beautiful little “things” (lanterns, plants, etc.) like this.
More pretty “things”
We found there were shrines within shrines and temples within temples. This was a smaller one within Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto
This one made the BW Travel Wall of Fame. I read there are over 10,000 gates at Fushimi Inari. We might have photographed about 10% of them.
Endlessly beautiful shots
Photogenic sashimi (raw fish only, no rice)
Kashima Temple in Fukuoka. That is Mike Berg in the foreground.
That’s quite a subway stop title. I’m not sure what the “Maidashi” part is but the rest of it means “in front of the Kyushu Medical Center Hospital”.
I think this picture will make the book but I wanted to share it anyway. It’s a good one.
Here we are: Outstanding in our (rice) field
More photogenic food. It’s probably so photogenic because even at low priced restaurants, everything is served in lovely bowls with just the right garnish.
Eta enjoyed posing for pictures but I caught him not looking at least once. He’s so cute!
As we were leaving our mountain hot springs hotel, I took a few pictures. It was so humid that the camera steamed up. I think I should trademark it and sell it to Instagram for a new filter.
If you want to see 300 sumo pictures, I can help you with that. I’m almost ready to start the Nagoya part of the Shutterfly book. I don’t know how I’ll choose the best pictures from our 4 hours at the sumo.
Pictures of pictures! You can thank Doug, Makiko!
Fun with filters… this is the view from our room at the Tokyo Marriott.
The best way to be a building gawker: ride the Open Top Bus
This one also made the BW Travel Wall of Fame. This is from our evening visit to Odaiba.
We came across this life-size cut out of Musashimaru who was one of our favorite sumo wrestlers when we lived in Japan. I’m not sure exactly how I’ll use this photo in the book but I’ll find a way. Sometimes photos stand alone.
Big and Small details – this is the embroidery on a kimono at the Kabuki Museum
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