Japan!!!

yeah but not back on ff just yet XD I have to get my school taken care of before I can come back to that ^^;;


I am still working on scanning my pictures... I am about a third of the way through XD but I am only scanning the ones I think turned out at least decent... I never said i was a photographer lol
 
Kimberely said:
yeah but not back on ff just yet XD I have to get my school taken care of before I can come back to that ^^;;


I am still working on scanning my pictures... I am about a third of the way through XD but I am only scanning the ones I think turned out at least decent... I never said i was a photographer lol
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lol im just glad ur back :-D
 
Antor said:
My brother only likes taking pictures of stupid things (including me), but I guess I'll share my Japan photos that barely have anything to do with Japan.

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y55/Antor/Japan/

Did you by any chance shop at Hard Off? It's totally the coolest pawn shop thing ever.
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Nah I actually didnt get to do a lot of exploring on my own. I went for a chemistry class XD so later I am gonna have scanned stuff of my journal that I kept while I was there. That includes random thoughts I had and notes I took at the places we went.

The craziest store I saw was one that sold... for lack of a better term... vegas costumes in one of the Tokyo shopping districts. lol if I didn't do the home stay I could have been one of the girls that got ditched by the male professor in the red light district of Toyama though!! XD C'est la vive!

We went to Hiroshima, Osaka, Toyama, Kyoto, Nagoya, and Tokyo in about 8 days.... lots and lots of traveling XD

I will have more pictures up soon... I only had one day to get over my jetlag before I went back to classes... >.> so I am being lazy with getting my information from Japan together! XD Glad you guys are patient lol
 
wb those pics look nice what kind of camera you got? >_>

I wanna get stationed there.. BFN SUCKS ASS :|||||||||
 
no tentacle monsters? I don't believe you were in Japan, young lady
 
Westyle said:
no tentacle monsters? I don't believe you were in Japan, young lady
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OMFG LMFAO... what about Godzilla?
 
Great pictures! Langly and myself are visiting there for two weeks this summer and seeing the pictures just got me even more excited.

Any specific recommendations on where to go or what to see?
 
Faule said:
Great pictures! Langly and myself are visiting there for two weeks this summer and seeing the pictures just got me even more excited.

Any specific recommendations on where to go or what to see?
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Thank you all!!

I recommend the Peace Museum!! Everyone in the world needs to visit it just once. I admit it... I cried when I went through it. But still go!!

I also recommend getting a JR or (Japan Railway) pass that gives you unlimited use of any JR line in the country. Ours was 28,300Yen... and it was 116Yen for 1 US dollar... Valid for 7 days. I might be wrong but I think it also gives you a discount on the bullet train.

The Toyota Museum in Nagoya is pretty cool too... Lots of varieties of cars both new and old... Its really neat..
I wanted to go to the Nagoya Castle but we spent too much time at the Toyota Museum. (I will have some pictures up of the Toyota museum shortly).

Hmm... I love Tokyo! I have never seen a place like that before...(Kentucky girl >.>) so just explore till your heart is content. I never once felt unsafe in Tokyo or anywhere in Japan... I lock my doors at my house which I live in a town of about 900....

Ooooh... we went to a PCB detox. plant!! XD PCBs or polychlorinated byphenyls were used in transformers and as industrial lubricants because they are very resistent to high temperatures and they never degrade. Dr. Loganathan doesn't even know of one of these in the United States!!! So I feel very honored to have the oppertunity to visit and tour this place.... Though you might have a hard time getting the full tour! XD

Toyama is a great city. We visited the university of there and I had a lot of fun with the students from there. Lol one girl said I hogged all the japanese boys because I like "boy anime"!!!

We didn't get to do much in Kyoto and Osaka... we really just passed through these cities and visited some labs and such.... so i don't have many pictures of here.



Oh...I did get a hello kitty cellphone strap of Kitty dressed in a godzilla outfit climbing the Tokyo tower!! XD so that was the only "monster" i saw


As for my camera its an "old skool" one.. I actually used film on the trip!!! XD I was the only one :o Everyone else used digital cameras >.> Its a Kodak advantex camera thing... I don't remember the exact model lol
 
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I might be wrong with the name, it's been a while, bit here are a few places I went, also (aimed towards anyone, really, possibly recommendations for if you go back to Japan, Kimberely):

1) Showa Park
2) Fujikyu Highland
3) Summer Funland
4) Hard Off (any and all you can find!)
5) Any grocery store you can find because they're amusing

Some cool cities I think are worth checking out are Fussa, Tachikawa, and Shinjuku. There's tons of shrines and stuff in Shinjuku and it's definitely worth the visit. I'd link you guys to my LiveJournal, but it's got a bunch of semi-private stuff in it, even though I set it to public.

Also, whatever you do, do -not- go to Disney Sea unless you like being disappointed.

Did you make it to the top of the tower? My cousin wimped out halfway, but the top is amazing.
 
lol nah I didn't make it to the special observation deck on the Tower... I am scared of heights. I went to the main observation deck and took pictures (still yet to be scanned) and went down to the first observation deck where they have a look down. Yeah after standing on that and looking down I had my fill and went back to ground level XD

Yeah grocery stores in Japan are pretty cool. We got to explore one while the main professor in charge went to buy us more subway tickets.

Lucky for me I have real life friends who are half-japanese who go visit their grandparents in Tokyo fairly often so I hope I get to go back soon. I really love Japan. Outside of the United States I have been to 4 countries now. England, France, Canada, and now Japan. Japan is by far my favorite country. Everything there is recycled every chance they get. They are so environmentally friendly!!! (Great for me since I want to study Environmental Toxicology!! lol) They have escalators that only work when someone needs it. So that way they don't have to waste energy letting it run. When you go to a restaurant you seperate your trash before you throw it away. I think that's more for the ways that they have to treat it though... instead of having to deal with recycling. But I could be wrong!

I also really like that everything has a jingle. When the train is coming and leaving there's a jingle. Jingles for when the light changes for people to walk. Yeah its for blind people but it is still nice. I don't know enough about my locations to know if its east-west streets or north-south streets but I am sure that it's the same for all of japan. When the light changes and its ok to walk, there's a bird that chirps for one direction, and the other direction sounds like a cuckoo clock!!
 
Don't you just love the "our store is closing, get the hell out" songs? :3
 
XD I didn't get to hear any. I didn't get a lot of time to actually explore on my own and when I did I only went like a block in any direction from my hostel/hotel. That's my main reason for wanting to go back! XD to be able to explore and see things on my own terms (like more shrines and temples, museums, malls, etc).

XD ok you make me want to blow off p-chem homework to scan more pictures... I should have some more up in about an hour or so... I upload them to photobucket as I scan them




**update** I added about 30 more pictures lol and I still have about another dozen or so to go then I will be done >.> I threw out a bunch that had glare, really really bad quality, etc. But for the most part you see almost everything that I have seen from Japan... Oh except for the last little bit on the roll of film I haven't finished... that's gonna be a little bit though XD maybe next week
 
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