A thing I really love about Japan is the way that you find restaurants. Take this door for instance. Looks like a tiny door leading to either nowhere or a tiny space. However, I learned that these seemingly tiny places can be humongous once you go in and downstairs. I find this interesting – you …
New Photo: The City in a Building
One evening, after a museum visit, we tried making our way back from outer Tokyo towards the centre. It was so freezing though, that we looked for ways to move indoors. We went through this ginormous shopping centre that had an exhibition going on for old cars. Instead of just showing the cars, they really …
New Photo: Vibrant Tokyo and the Unknown Passenger
This turned out to be one of my favourite images from Tokyo! I got the shot of the car driving by and only later realised the neon lights that are visible in the reflection. This is a great symbol for the city – vibrant, fast moving and absolutely overwhelming at first. -Phill
New Photo: The Stage of the Yasaka Shrine
It’s a stage! I have no idea what kind of performances are happening here, but I wish I would have seen one. The whole place is called the Yasaka Shrine, which, to be fair, was a completely random find. After a while we stopped trying to move from temple to temple (there are simply so …
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New Photo: Kyotos Streets at Night
Walking through Kyoto at night is a blessing. There is no rubbish on the street, everything is very calm. The houses and little bars or shops are all super pretty (sometimes in a messy way if you’re in the very centre). And then… Sake. -Phill