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On the 3rd weekend of July each year, a festival is held in celebration of the mysteriously beautiful "Hozuki" red Chinese lantern plant in the small suburb town of Ushita in Hiroshima city, Japan. Although the city's main festivals, Tokasan, Ebisu-k...

Was able to visit the Gundam in Shizuoka before they finally dismantled it. Unfortunately, because of the major earthquake recently experienced, it closed really early which means no night shots and laser shows. Nevertheless, the sunset was still pre...

Kawagoe (also known as 'Little Edo') is located in Saitama Prefecture and is only half an hour northwest of Ikebukuro. With its main street, lined by massive kurazukuri (warehouse style) buildings, the former castle town of Kawagoe has retained a ce...

Have a lot of new video/photo about Kyoto to post, so, let start with Fushimi Inari Check the video here and here is a selection of some pictures.

Beautiful place! I want to come back!!!

The next week after the Great Tohoku Earthquake, I decided to take a trip by car to the south of Japan and visit so many places, a trip I was planing to do long time ago. These are some pictures of Nara, I had part of the evening and the next day onl...

アジアを旅し、美しいものを撮りました。

Nara is a famous place - not only for being the ancient capital of Japan but also for it's deers. They walk freely wherever they like and cadging for cookies. If you freeze taking pictures or seat down, they'll approach you at once and try to chew yo...

Chichibu's Shibazakura during Spring. This picture was taken last Spring of 2010.

A short trip for winter vacation in Okayama with my family. I always go to northern part of Okayama with my dog "Hana" and enjoy walking on the mountain trail in snow when I go back to my hometown during winter vacation every year.

札幌雪祭り

This region is famous for it's beautiful old Gasshou-Zukuri houses ("hands in a buddist prayer", they look alike, don't they). The house can have up to 5 floors and all the floors are covered with the thick rice straw roof. The roof is flexible and m...

This autumn I traveled across Japan for almost four weeks and given so much free time I definitely couldn't miss the opportunity to visit Matsumoto. The place welcomed me with beautiful sunny weather, after three rainy days in Tokyo it felt like summ...

Jindaiji Temple (深大寺) 5-15-1 Jindaiji Motomachi 0424-86-5511. This temple of the Buddhist Tendai sect, constructed in 733, is nearly the oldest in the Tokyo area, second only to Sensoji in Asakusa. Although the temple building itself is modest, th...

Here are my collections of HDR pictures shot in the 2010 autumn in Nikko, Japan. Kindly checkout my HDR blog as well if you want to learn how I make these HDR photos HDR Workflow Tutorial

Picture of Yahoo Dome in Fukuoka city and other area near Yahoo Dome ..with Christmas Light picture

Using Canon G7, some of the photos have wrong setting

Kagoshima Autumn festival

Ninja man in front of Kumamoto city castle

I'm sorry for mixing it up

I think it's Jizo anyways. Not entirely sure. If you know for sure, please let me know in the comments. Anyways, I found this cool group of statues at a small local temple. Very quiet and relaxing place. If curious, more on this photo and a new HDR s...

I Took the picture from top of Kumamoto Castle ..

Kumamoto Castle (熊本城 Kumamoto-jō?) is a hilltop Japanese castle located in Kumamoto in Kumamoto Prefecture.[1] It was a large and extremely well fortified castle. The castle keep (天守閣 tenshukaku?) is a concrete reconstruction built in 1960,[1]...

Kumamoto Castle (熊本城 Kumamoto-jō?) is a hilltop Japanese castle located in Kumamoto in Kumamoto Prefecture. It was a large and extremely well fortified castle. The castle keep (天守閣 tenshukaku?) is a concrete reconstruction built in 1960, but se...