May 14, 2003
Japan travelogue
While our 10-day holiday in Japan ended over 2 weeks ago, I’ve been pleasantly reliving it since then putting together a travelogue of sorts from the over 1000 photos we took. It’s a bit too easy to take photos — the digital camera holds about 350, and when it fills up, you use an ATM-like machine to put them all onto CD, clear them off the camera, and start again.
I should really start trying to explain why we wanted to go to Japan, but that’s difficult to put into words. I’ve been something of a Japanophile for over 10 years, a result of manga, film, books, music, and I even feel a kinship with some of the social norms that differ from the West’s. That said, despite how friendly and helpful the people were, I thought that getting deeper than the superficial tourism level would take years of living there.
Probably the greatest direct influence was the films of Studio Ghibli and the recent opening of the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka.
The travelogue’s here (table of contents):
Besides the diary-style day-by-day pages (that may only interest relatives) there are also some subject-specific pages:
I wish I could summarise an incomparable 10 days better than this, but perhaps the travelogue does it adequately.
Thanks also for everyone who offered us advice while we were planning the trip. You know who you are!
Comments
Fantastic photos!!! I really love this post. I love Japan too, particularly Okinawa, Japan. My wife is from Okinawa too. I have some entries in my blog about Okinawa. Thanks for sharing all these pictures. I'm sure I will look at them again often.
Posted by: Travis Morgan on May 28, 2003 03:31 PMHello, your travelogue of Japan so cute. I enjoyed your picture. In Japanese Newspaper Asahi-Shinbun introduced your site.
http://www.asahi.com/column/aic/Tue/d_search/20030916.html
foods look so yummy!
Posted by: junbug on September 18, 2003 06:23 PMWOW. I was so thrilled to find your pictures of your trip...especially when I saw that you stayed in the same ryokan that I stayed in on MY trips at Thanksgiving and Christmas 2002! I stayed upstairs in rooms 25 and 27, and another one in the back. I walked past that fugu restaurant everyday on my way to Shibuya Station and always stopped at the coffee machines beside the little parking lot right there.
I didn't take nearly enough photos (I spent days shopping for a camera), so as I finish my journal, I'm filling in with shots off the internet (and intend to give credit!) when I need them.
The Miyazaki Museum was closed for the end of the year when I arrived, but I had no other disappointments.
I hope to return soon.
Thanks again for posting your trip. I'm so homesick for Shibuya.
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Yay, at last and just in time. I was about to formula a rude email about how making people wait for extended periods is a cruel and unusual punishment.
Thanks for all the hard work 8)
Posted by: Big Chief Rattlesnake on May 15, 2003 03:36 PM