Hello everyone!

As many may or may not have known, I indeed made my way to the Northern Hemisphere on September 26th to spend 10 days in the Land of the Rising Sun. It has taking me absolutely ages to get my photographs in order but I am slowly going to upload them a few at a time :)

Here are the first two I took:

Sunset of a Shadowed Past
http://tn7.deviantart.com/300W/fs5.deviantart.com/i/2004/332/4/9/Sunset_of_a_Shadowed_Past_by_spikyboy.jpg
Click here (http://www.deviantart.com/view/12685472/) to see full picture.

This piece of architecture is in fact the only building to sustain the effects of the Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima. This is what remained...

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The Golden Pavillion
http://tn9.deviantart.com/300W/fs5.deviantart.com/i/2004/332/0/6/The_Golden_Pavillion_by_spikyboy.jpg
Click here (http://www.deviantart.com/view/12685912/) to see full picture.

This is Kinkakuji or better known as 'The Golden Pavillion' in Kyoto. I tried to scope it out and get a slightly different angle.


NOTE: Please Thumbnails work!

WOW.......they are so pretty!!!!

I agree ... you are very lucky you live close to Japan Roy

Originally posted by Mithiras@Dec 2 2004, 11:52 AM
I agree ... you are very lucky you live close to Japan Roy
If you call "close" an 11 hour plane flight straight north, then by all means, yeah...

lucky me XD

where did you stay?

Yay, they are cooool :D I'll have to post the link to my photo album of my backpacking trip some day - lots of nice sunsets and stuff, but not quite as striking as these!

the sadness of not taking a camera with me when I went..

Originally posted by Sinbios Zefiris Ark@Dec 2 2004, 10:22 PM
where did you stay?
Well I moved around three times:

For the first four days I was in Tokyo Youth Hostel (which was more like a Tokyo Youth HOTEL). It was so big an extravagant. I think the Youth Hostel was just the 18th Floor but it had little rooms and keys and yes....was like a free hotel.

After this, we went down to Kyoto and stayed in the Higashiyama Youth Hostel. It was small and kinda old but it felt really nice and comfortable and had a great atmosphere.

Final days were spent in Hiroshima. We stayed in a Hostel just outside the outskirts of the city.

Yay, I love Youth Hostels :D I stayed in sooo many in Aus and NZ and you meet such interesting people there with their own stories to tell - even when you can't speak the same language, you can still share things like jigsaw puzzles together XD

so prettiful!! and you're so lucky! like des! she went this year to Japan too...so sad, I did Chinese, so i wasn't allowed to go :( but at least i hosted a Japanese exchange student! *sigh* *waits for the day she can go to Japan*

Just over 6 months till I go :D :D

Originally posted by Roy Mustang@Dec 3 2004, 04:38 AM
Well I moved around three times:

For the first four days I was in Tokyo Youth Hostel (which was more like a Tokyo Youth HOTEL). It was so big an extravagant. I think the Youth Hostel was just the 18th Floor but it had little rooms and keys and yes....was like a free hotel.

After this, we went down to Kyoto and stayed in the Higashiyama Youth Hostel. It was small and kinda old but it felt really nice and comfortable and had a great atmosphere.

Final days were spent in Hiroshima. We stayed in a Hostel just outside the outskirts of the city.
:D

i used to live near kyoto. great place. did you get to catch any post-season festivals?