Last Day

We spent this day travelling back to Tokyo by plane, then we had many hours till my mums flight so we explored airport.

I think this is my favourite sign :)



I'm not sure if the sarcasm comes across in Japanese or if it was intentional in the English...either way :)

Osaka Day 1 and only

Only had a day in Osaka which was a shame, we went to the castle and took a boat cruise afterwards, of which I have a video. Osaka is probably my favourite castle so far, took alot of shots :)








From the top level balcony :)











Golden Bird :)



Nozzle position....to play space invaders



Clouds made for an awesome backdrop






TAKOYAKI IN THE KANSAI YEAH!!!!

Kyoto Day 2

Day 2 started with a visit to 金閣寺, or Golden Pavilion, I think I got that right.

The gate + massive amounts of tourists



Time to cleanse some impure thoughts!!!



Took about a billion photos to get the right one, still bad day for reflection shot





Was getting hungry, if I had a net....



Cool island



Still can't figure out what that could mean



Went to the Imperial Palace here but it was closed, so I took a shot of the sky in protest



Randomly saw this on the street, how well done :)



Gate leading into the museum area, strafe shot while crossing the road haha

Kyoto Day 1

So, the morning after that we hopped on a bullet train for Tokyo, I love bullet trains so much more time efficient than planes.



First thing we went to see was Hinomaru Castle, which I thought was pretty cool, got some awesome shots there.
Check out the reflection!!!!



Entry Gate



The best show of craftmanship that we were allowed to take photos of.



Had to be done



Lovely garden



Addiction to relfection shots





Overview :)



After this we toured the shopping alleys of Kyoto where there are like a billion shops, didn't take any photos though :(

Tokyo Day 3

Well I kinda made a few mistakes that day, things were closed that I didn't know about, we went to a photography museum and saw a nude photo exhibition. Some stuff was interesting, some stuff was wacked, but hey its all art right. This is a shot of me just outside

Tokyo Day 2

Next day we hit Ueno, home of Ueno park and also a heap of museums and concert halls etc.

We went to the museum of Western Art out the front of which were some Japanese copies of Auguste Rodin's sculptures, my favourite would be The Thinker for course :)

The Thinker



Forgot the title, lets call it Mr Arrowman



GATES OF HELL



For lunch we hit up the famous Tsukiji fish market, late in the day but still GOOD SUSHI *DROOL*



The selection that was responsible for the drooling, my favourite thing to order is a dish that includes the different cuts and grades of tuna, love tuna!



Next up was Imperial Palace, first thing we saw was this statue of Kusunoki Masashige, 14th century samurai who basically accepted an Anzac/Gallipoli command from his Emperor and died.



The palace as close as we could get



My mum was keen enough to notice the Spanish reporters that were waiting outside the gate and so deduced something must be happening. We had early seen carriages go into the Palace but here they came out with people inside, I was not fast enough with my camera to catch the royals inside though. I got a hand!!!!!




Here they were after dropping the royals off at Tokyo City Hall, felt sorry for the guys who had to run to keep up with the horses, and the horses in front who were being force to trot, they weren't happy about it hahaha.





We went to my place for dinner, I got a bad shot of the famous Shibuya intersection here, that I've been meaning to take for a while hahaha