Random Japanese Pictures (56K DEATH)

[BigTinz]

What the hell are those cars doing in Japan?

Great pics, keep em coming!

[hashiriya1]

I love shots like that of Japan. It's absolutely gorgeous to me, especially when overcast like most of those. Too bad it's so expensive, though I hear the more rural provinces can be much cheaper. How's Aomori? I always wanted to see the boiling sulfur pools at Osorezan. Figure a good look at Hell might do me some good.

I drove up to Aomori once, but in the winter, and it was freezing as hell. Aomori is nice though, but I didn't go to Osorezan. It was too far north and I wasn't having fun driving thru a blizzard! Maybe my next roadtrip to Aomori I'll drive to Osorezan.

[Dakinggamer87]

Great pictures I love seeing more of Japan...

[Marspants]

Driving in Shinjuku. This is the road from the opening scene in LOST IN TRANSLATION

That's what I was thinking of from most of these pictures! Good movie. Hope to see these places someday. Thanks for sharing!

[Zeitgeist]

Aomori was very disappointing for me. I went there from Tokyo where i live by bicycle. I was looking forward to some nice beaches, similar to Hokkaido which I traveled by bicycle two years before. Many beaches could not be accessed because they were military area or something. Also lots of waste dumps. Aomori is a pretty poor prefecture and you really can feel it.
If you go there, be sure to visit Kappa-onzen. A very nice free of charge onzen near a river. It was the highlight of my trip there.
During the year i was there, there was something like a horsefly plague (at least I hope it is not always like this). Cycling downhills was no problem. Getting slower while going uphills made them attack you again. Not just two or three. Dozens. I did not see any dragonflies or other insects in this certain area. Very strange.
Anyway, thinking back now I enjoyed the loneliness there (compared to Tokyo).

[gtmtnbiker]

As always, cool pictures and thanks for taking the time to share them with us.

[nightwalker]

Can i ask you a personal question?

Are you Japanese hashiriya1?

Because you said at first that you've been living a lot of time there I thought you were from somewhere else and moved to japan. My wife is a flight attendant and she went with a friend of her who is Japanese before we got married. But I want to go when i finally learn a decent amount of japanese. Ive only been studying Japanese for a month now. I find it really hard for me because I'm puertorican and my first language is spanish and I have to translate in my mind from japanese to english to spanish. But I know I'm gonna make it I practice everyday. My wife laughs sometimes when I get frustrated when I know a word one second and minutes later I get confused with another one hehe.

But anyways I wanna really thank you for uploading those pictures it gives me more determination to learn and get on a plane and go there. Sure we have a friend who lives there and can do the translation and everything but the way my mom raised me was "If you go to someone else house learn to speak the way they do that's a form to show respect to other". I went to Italy last year and I know like a 40% italian and the people wherever we go where really happy because they said that at least I made an effort in trying to communicate in their language. I also learned that from a friend of work hes american but he sounds really funny speaking in spanish but he tries and hes getting better day by day.

I don't even know why I made this long post but hey its been a while since Ive been here. But hey thanks again for the pictures.

[NotBlaine]

I love pictures of Akihabara. It's like when Game Center CX goes to Super Potato... I know it's over priced, but I just don't care.

Immersion. That's the word I'm looking for.

[puke_face]

Very cool stuff. I was suprised to see the K-5 blazer driving down the road, lol.

[Anayo]

Do keep the pictures coming, please. I enjoy seeing them.