After that I came across this restaurant that I ended up having a meal at later that day. Apparently it's a very traditional Japanese place to eat like many places around Tokyo.
These vending machines are all over the place in Japan. Iced coffee, juice, and other stuff is there for you whenever you need it.
Here is a Japanese street. My mom and dad told me to take pictures of even the boring things that are different, so here you go, its a road, and its a little different than in the us.
Here is a pretty cool cycle I though was pretty rad looking.
This feller is a Subaru forester WRX STi, so like a family car that can go really fast. kinda cool and different from what is offered in the US.
Another road with a big thirty in the middle of it.
Here is a pretty cool little ally with a blue tinted window.
Here is a Japanese shrine/temple thing. Also pretty cool.
It had a swastika on the top of it and that had me kinda stressing, but apparently they aren't always bad and it just so happened that the Nazis ruined it for everyone, just like they ruined a lot of Europe.
Here is the little sign thing in front of this shrine, one of the guys head got cut off.. feel free to read it if you want.
This is a tea ceremony place and a cool building in the shrine garden area.
This is a cleansing area before you go look at the shrine. Wash both hands, wash your mouth, and then was the big wooden spoon thing you used to wash all your parts.
This is the shine area center, and a guy taking a picture of it.
Totem things that sometimes have candles in them at night which is pretty cool to see I assume.
Here is a bench that I saw after the shrine with some birds under it. I tried to get a better picture of them but couldn't because the fluttered away. one thing I want to do is document different types of animals that i see and compare them to ones at home. As well as any flowers that I see.
Here is a sign that they use as a crosswalk sign. A little different, worth the inclusion.
This is a temple I stumbled upon.
Inside the temple garden was this little fountain and I thought id catch a shot of the water droplet falling into the pool. I think I nailed it.
Like churches in America, temples in japan also have graveyards, but in japan they are called memory gardens, which seems a little bit more honoring than strait up calling them a yard with dead people in boxes under gound.
Some examples.
Close up of the example.
Example of an older looking one.
Close up of an older looking one.
Flowers on one.
Close up of flowers on one.
There were a lot of them in this little area. Apparently a lot of people die. From what I could tell it looked like one little square thing could serve a whole family with multiple generations so potentially thousands of lives are represented here, kinda cool.
I left the memory garden and found a neat looking fountain thing.
After that I found a couple more cars I thought were cool. Another Japanese specific version of a common American appearing car. This on was a Honda civic Vi-RS. Probably somewhat like the Si version of the same generation civic in America.
Until the next little excursion. If you have any questions please feel free to hit the comment section up, down below. rad.
-Josh
Loved the post, and all the photos, even the street was very cool to see all how things are different. Keep it up. everything you find interesting, take a photo of it and show it.... Love you! - Dad
ReplyDeletemaybe try to snap a little video as you walk into a restauraunt or any place and let me see what you see as you make the entrance. that would be cool. ;)
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