Photos from my trip to Japan, part I of [---]

[dangermousie]

As you might remember, Mr. Mousie and I went to Japan in September. I posted write-ups (click on 'japan' tag). I also posted a few photos here. But I also took almost 900 photographs, so I think from now on, now that I got them burned on a disc, I am going to do a daily 'photos of Japan' post until I end up posting all of them. (As well as posts on England, Chicago, Spain, Florida, whatever trips at some point)

Let's say 20 per day? (Slightly less so if there are personal pics in the batch I ul as I am not posting those without a lock). There are people and streets and monuments and food and clothes. Some of these photos are good (if I say so myself), some mediocre, but hey...why not?



I started clicking as soon as we hit the Tokyo Metro. The first 20 photos are so aren't as interesting as later Tokyo and Kyoto shots (because metro and hotel areas aren't as interesting as where we went later) but IMO still fun.

Shinjuku metro station, which is the one we used when we stayed in Tokyo the first time (our hotel was a few blocks from there). I was fascinated by the crowds and the order and the size:





Streets on the way to the hotel (Hotel Washington, amusingly enough):





Building opposite hotel next morning:



And more surrounding streets on the way to the metro. It was really early in the morning on a weekend:









Stores and posters:







In the metro:

There was some promotion so the handles were replaced with ties:



Seriously, this is uncredibly clean:



One of my favorite pictures of the trip (made all the more awesome that in the car next to this hyper modern girl was a woman in her 30s-40s in a kimono):



"No groping" sign:



We went to see the Imperial Palace/Gardens or what you can see of it (not much) and this is the moat:



One of the entrances:



To be continued tomorrow (and clearly for months after :))

I might post all the pics with me in a separate, flocked bunch. Hmmm. Still considering. Also, get less blurry as I figure out how to have a 'moving' setting.

Also, should I shrink them so they'd be more compact or leave them this size for better detail?

Comments

[raisintorte.livejournal.com]

Those are great! I think I have the exact same pictures of the imperial palace. I can't wait to see the rest.

Also, should I shrink them so they'd be more compact or leave them this size for better detail??

I usually post 640x480 - you can still see what's going on, but it fits on the screen. You can also add a link under the picture to the big version if people want detail?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the shrinking advice. Will do.

[janlake83.livejournal.com]

love the pics of the imperial palace... too bad all i can remember when i went to tokyo was disneyland.. and i think it's kinda funnie that the subway system is soooooooooo clean and that there is a no groping sign... i'm 5 sorry

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL. We never went to Disneyland. But I loved Japan so much.

[janlake83.livejournal.com]

yeah same here well that of what i can remember... tokyo disney was a highlight since at the times i was living in asia so the only disney i knew was tokyo...

[gingifere.livejournal.com]

Wow! I all jealous now. I love the whole no groping sign! And my God *clean* trains!! Thats so rare (although the underground isn't too bad in London!)!

I'd love to go to Japan but I get the feeling I won't be able to make it until I've finished university (so another two years yet!) and thats if I haven't been destroyed financially by the total costs of said unvirsity and the joys of paying back university fees!

I'd agree with raisintorte about the pic sizes. Only so that those with a slowe bandwidth don't have to wait forever to see them.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I am sure you'll get to go and it will be fun. Lots of fun. :)

And yeah, I am going to scale down batches to smaller photo size from now on...

[fivil.livejournal.com]

Wow, the subway really IS clean!

Heheh, one of the hottest Japanese actors I know, Tamaki Hiroshi, is a model on the lower billboard ad in that one picture. Awesomeee.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

He looks familiar. What has he been in? Just you wait till my Kat-Tun and Kimura poster pictures. They were everywhere.

[fivil.livejournal.com]

He's been in Nodame Cantabile, my favourite jdrama (romantic comedy, very manga-like, makes classical music cool). And a bunch of sideroles in many other dramas, and some films...

[lydzi.livejournal.com]

Wow! So a clean subway exist in this world? I'm amazed o_O. And the ties are cute lol ^^. Everything seems really clean.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Those ties were adorable. And I think you could eat off the floor of that train. Of course people would look at you funny if you did that :)

[grey-fuzzy.livejournal.com]

Wow, the pictures are really cool... make me want to go to Japan even more! The ties are so weird! Anyways, I look forward to seeing the rest of the pics :).

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And yeah, the ties were amusing.

[mina85.livejournal.com]

OH my god I wish that I can go to Japan too..I like the ties idea
Japanese people are really genius and they have sooo much cute and unique things

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked the pics :)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Fantastic!!! This is like you are giving us opportunity to be there! Thank you so much!!! It looks like "Lost in translation".. I like the tall modern buildings!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thanks! There will be plenty of short squat buildings too, later on :)

Out hotel wasn't that far from the Hyatt where LiT was set and we walked by it...

[katranna.livejournal.com]

Tassels!

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4050/tasselsfm3.jpg

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I am blind now.

[autumn-yaar.livejournal.com]

AH! Those are awesome, I'm so happy you are going to start posting your pics!! ^^

And snap, that train is hella clean! I've been tainted by NYC trains.. LOL. And the no groping sign.. ROFL.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah....I kept being shocked by how clean everything was.

[weissman.livejournal.com]

I love these pictures, the only thing we saw in Japan was the airport on the way to China

Bob

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL. You should have a proper trip there some time, it's awesome.

[weissman.livejournal.com]

Sooner or later, (I have a friend that left for a two week trip to Japan on Sunday). I think I will be in Singapore and China before Japan, especially with the adoption. My wants to check up on our property in Singapore, we haven't been there in five years.

Bob

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

That would be awesome.

And hope the adoption process is going smoothly!

[village.livejournal.com]

Now that's public transit, I could learn to enjoy.

Great pictures. I would love to go there. One day...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And you totally should!

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

I am gleeful that you will be posting your pics regularly :) Thank you! Resizing the pic may be a good idea, perhaps to 3/4 to what you have now, so that it would take less time to load :D I think it's fascinating that people notice different things during their trips, according to the culture/interests that they are usually exposed to ^^ I went to the Imperial Castle grounds too, the gardens were beautiful weren't they! Loved all the bonsai there.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am going to resize. But yeah, I took so many people pics though normally I am not too interested, because it was so different from here.

And yeah, the gardens are gorgeous.