Japan has feudal castles, too! This was another activity that involved climbing lots and lots of stairs, and looking at really old things. But pretty old things. Here’s a couple of my favorites:
Main Tower
View from the top floor of the main tower.
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Fushimi Inari Shrine
Fushimi Inari Shrine is perhaps my favorite place I’ve been in Japan so far. It’s a gorgeous hike up a mountain via a bajillion stairs through thousands of orange gates. The place has a certain serenity to it that I’ve found very difficult to come by on such an overcrowded little [...]
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Originally uploaded by ~inky. Copyright Liam Cooke 2008 some rights reserved, for noncommercial use only.
My friend Liam Cooke does pretty things with a camera. Especially with futuristic/minimalistic stuff. Go look. Go enjoy.
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Posted in Photoblog, Photoshoot, tagged city, Harajuku, japan, murals, people watching, Photoshoot, Shibuya, Tokyo on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I spent this past weekend in Tokyo with my good friend Sean Horrell, who is a great photographer, with an especially gifted eye for cities (and who is sadly nowhere on the internet, so I have no links for you). We went to see a concert, but the rest of the trip sort of [...]
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As per request of my friend NeoBokrug, I’m putting together a collection of photos of the weird shit you can get in vending machines in Japan. While I have yet to come across the infamous used panties for sale, there’s still an array of drinks and snacks that make me do a WTF face [...]
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