A few slideshows of Japan

Below are 7 short slideshows that highlight different parts of our Japan travels during September and October this year.

This was on Sado Island which is off the west coast in the Niigata Prefecture…

  • Dance performance in our hotel lobby
  • Lots of gold was mined there.
  • These boats were used to fish in shallow waters

We rented a car and did a big loop from Nagano to Sado Island, to Tsuruoka (where the Art Fields are), then to Yamagata, and then back to Nagano…

  • Rice Fields
  • Roasting Chestnuts
  • A beautiful building that was an Oyaki factory (Japanese dumplings)
  • Fish shop store front
  • That car has less than inch clearance on each side
  • Fishing boats
  • Kudzu is everywhere
  • At a Silk Museum
  • the dining room in one of our hotels
  • A reading room in the hotel
  • slippers at the entrance of a Ryokan
  • On Alison’s birthday

Temples and Shrines…

  • A Sumo Wrestling event for kids.
  • LOTS of ceremony
  • incense outside a shrine
  • There were 2550 steps to the top..
  • Temples and Shrines along the way
  • This was another walk up 1100 steps

Various Museums we visited…

  • D.T. Suzuki Museum, Kanazawa
  • Yayoi Kasuma’s exhibit, Kanazawa
  • A Fog Art installation, Nagano
  • Outside Kanazawa Art Museum
  • An art Exhibit in Tsuruoka

An amazing display of Jellyfish at the Kamo Aquarium on the coast south of Sakata

Kanazawa and Tokyo

  • Imperial Palace Gardens
  • A very cool restaurant
  • Maiko dress-up
  • some of the English on shirts and bags can be amusing
  • Delicious sushi!

Some of my cycling…

  • Fortunately, this grade was short
  • you will NEVER go dry in Japan
  • Longest escilator I’ve ever seen
  • decisions, decisions…
  • On Sundays, this is a common site in small towns
  • I spend the night in Narai, and old Post-Town

~ by Robert on November 1, 2024.

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4 Responses to “A few slideshows of Japan”

  1. Nice. Another great Japan trip. How many have there been now.

    Jon K Peck jkpeck@gmail.com

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    jkpeck's avatar jkpeck said this on November 1, 2024 at 5:49 pm

  2. I can see why you love Japan.  I always enjoy seeing your images. I’m into astrophotography now.Cheers!Bill

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    Bill Becher's avatar Bill Becher said this on November 1, 2024 at 6:03 pm

  3. That was #13

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    Robert's avatar Robert said this on November 1, 2024 at 7:23 pm

  4. Loved these pictures. They tell such a wonderful story. Thank you for sending them.

    Hope we see you soon! Just back from 5 days in Las Vegas. Eric had a car in the Concours sponsored by the Wynn Resort. Lovely, but I don’t drink enough any more to deal with Las Vegas! We saw Ka ( a Cirque event ) last night. It was our 3rd time and still loved it.

    dg

    Deborah Gaynor

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    Deborah Gaynor's avatar Deborah Gaynor said this on November 4, 2024 at 5:28 pm

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