I swear, Obama is even more popular in Japan than in the States. Perhaps because there is an Obama city in Japan — who knows. Everyone here is acting like he is the Messiah! Come to save the world! — Can I get an Amen?
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I realize I’m not very good at this photo editing stuff. I tend to take way too many pictures – I have over 500 from the trip – and so everytime I sit down to edit them and post a few I am quickly overwhelmed and so nothing gets done. At any rate, I’ve finally managed to get a small group together and uploaded them to flickr. Go over there to see them.
Himeji castle is the bigger of the two I have posted. Osaka the smaller. The temple pics may look familar – it was Ken Watanabe’s home in The Last Samurai. The giant Buddha is Japan’s other Great Buddha. I’m not sure if it’s bigger than the one on Kamakura or not, but the temple surrounding him definitely is – it’s the biggest wooden structure in the world.
Let me know if you like them.
—>flickr
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These past few weeks have been pretty busy. For new years break this year, I took trips to Himeji, Nara, Osaka, and Kamakura.
Briefly, Kamakura is a small town near Tokyo. It was the location of the government over 1000 years ago and so has a number of interesting sites, including my favorite, the Great Buddha.
Nara was also the seat of the government a number of years ago, before Karakura was. It is very close to Kyoto and is similar in that it has tons of temples and shrines. The most famous of which houses the other Great Buddha statue of Japan.
Osaka is close to Nara and Kyoto. It is the second biggest city in Japan, and was historically the merchant capital of Japan. It’s a concrete jungle like Tokyo, but there are some cool spots, including the castle, which has a very rich history to it and was very important.
Himeji is small castle town, of note for having perhaps the most beautiful and best designed castle in Japan, and also for having a real castle. That is to say, it’s not a fake, built to replace one destroyed in the war. Himeji was bombed quite heavily, but amazingly the castle wasn’t hit.
Anyways, perhaps I’ll write more about these later for people who are interested, but for now pop over the my flickr page to see some pictures of Kamakura. Hopefully I’ll get the rest uploaded soon.
click here —> flickr link
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