panoramic view of the garden at Shodenji - with red trees beyond the low wall and Mt Hiei (Hieisan) in the background under blue sky with dotty white clouds
I do want to try and get to Enryaku-ji and Hieisan - even if from the Biwa side cablecar and not from #Kyoto
Last time had a great view form Shoden-ji - with Hieisan in the distance - what a garden and borrowed landscape use there!
#DiJP #Japan #JapanPhotography #Photography
A very blue tram in the morning light at a low station across from a track that goes into the distance on the right. Pale blue sky with white fluffy clouds
Very red tram car with overhead cables stopped at a platform across a set of tracks. Japanese writing in big white letters on the train side and front
Nagasaki trams
#Japan #DiJP #Photography
This qualifies as #Trains right? I like these just as much!
Pics from Nov 2023
An outstretched arm with with a couple of potato sticks held out as a flying seagull with spread wings grabs them in its beak. Other seagulls are flying nearby. A grey sea and overcast sky is the background
Another pic (a favorite) from that ferry ride is the 2nd one in my pinned (re) introduction post
#DiJP #Birds
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Sea in the bottom part of frame and then land and buildings by the green coast with mountain covered in greenery rising immediately. Huge dark grey clud overhead and just over the mountain
Ferry to Shimabara on a foggy drizzly afternoon - destination ahead.
Not the best weather that day but that ferry ride and side trip between Kumamoto and Nagaski was a super memorable part of my trip in 2023
#Japan #Photography #DiJP
Small teapot with the spout perpendicular to the handle that is a loop. So e blue patterns in the lid that has a handle/knob on top that is shaped like a small bird
Teapot
(Post lunch*; Yuasa #Japan Dec 2023)
#DiJP
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Looking up and out of the front windshield of the cable car at a single track going up a mountain, with trees on either side of the track. In the distance the track splits in two and a cable car is coming down.
Taking the cable car up to #Koyasan #Japan
#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #train Photography#DiJP Dec 2023
A person on a bicycle just through an old castle gate, which is open and frames a willow tree in bright sunlight in the background
#Osaka Castle #Japan #photography
#DiJP
Pic from Dec 2023
More from Okunoin in #Koyasan #Japan
From our trip in 2023 here
#DiJP
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Osaka Castle viewed with a pond in a garden in the foreground with the castle reflected in the still water of the pond.
Alright alright here's the non turvy version of the #OsakaCastle pic (from Dec 2024)
#Photography #Japan #Osaka #DiJP
Ikuta Jinja at night with people going in for New Year celebrations
2 kids in kimonos in a Family Mart looking at snacks/food items on the shelves
Walking in to ikuta Jinja at night for new year celebrations - 2 kids ahead of me in kimonos
Some pics from last year/this year [2023→2024] NYE that we could celebrate in Kobe*
Still so grateful for that opportunity and time 🙏🏽 #DiJP
Kids learned to put on their own kimonos (and researched and bought their own with their allowance 😭)
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A round eed lacquered plate with chopsticks on a rest and a long bowl with a number of food items along with some red Japanese maple leaves
Oh from 1 yr ago today - the one splurge #Kaiseki #dinner we saved up for - in #Kyoto
Partner and I had been there in 2016, last year we all (including kids) went for lunch and then later sans kids, for dinner.
This was the first of, let's see, 12 courses set in of me
#Food #Japan
#DiJP
Wet grey stones and some small stone figurines, with the sides of some of the stone blocks covered in green and pale brown moss. three pink flowers are on their side between two of the blocks Nov 2023
More more that wet morning walking around in #Nagasaki #Japan
#Photography #DiJP
#Mosstodon #Bloomscrolling too I suppose
Outside of le boozy with a smoker outside and a parked bicycle
Outside of bread and Boozy makers at night, with white plastic chairs stacked and some people inside seen through glass windows
Bar Collapsing in block letters illuminated by green light above a door
Taking of boozy* - it'll never not be funny (to me and kids as well) that last year while in #Kobe #Japan we used to walk past, almost daily, these 3 establisments called: Le Boozy, Bread and Boozy Makers, and Bar Collapsing. 😃
#kitano #sannomiya #DiJP
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[Booze (home #Chemistry)]
And this mix of ingredients is the same I made in our apartment in Kobe around this time. Mezcal I had taken with me - campari and vermouth procured there. Hey 3x and a fancier drink at the end of it. (Yes I took the toasted oak with me)
#DiJP
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A long oval glass window in the door of the car of the monorail. Cloudy sky with 6 storey buildings flanking a road below with cars and vans. A crab with bandaged claw - sticker on glass has the word ドアちゅうい that translates to (caution) closing door
#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday - technically may be a door of the monorail car looking out down onto the road in Naha Okinawa #Japan last year
#DiJP
One empty and one nearly full plastic covered tray with sushi
A nearly empty plastic tray and a kid pouring soy sauce in one corner. A few pieces of nigiri sushi are on the tray.
3/3
Ok so of course we didn't finish all that. Had about ⅘ a tray left when put together to take back
(On the bus + train/subway) - #Amagasaki back to Kobe
And yes, we had and the kids especially enjoyed #Sushi for #breakfast
#DiJP #Food
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The snow capped peak and dark sides of Fujisan up above the layer of clouds through an airplane window
#FensterFreitag #Fujisan
#WindowFriday
#ANA Pilot turned and dipped wings twice that morning as we headed to Tokyo 🙏🏽
(Nov 2023 #DiJP)
