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posted: February 1st, 2006 |
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The photos on this page continue with January 3rd at Yama Dera and go through the end of the month in Tokyo. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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The first shot here is the train station at Yama Dera as our train approaches. The next shot is that same evening on Main Street in Kazuya's hometown (Funagata) as we walked from the Funagata Station to his house. The 3rd shot is on
January 4th as we walked from Kazuya's house to the train station to start our trip back to Tokyo.
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The first shot here is a creek near the train station in Funagata. The 2nd and 3rd shots are near the bus stop in Funagata - there had been so much snow the day before that local trains were delayed about an hour - so we decided to take the bus to Shinjo - where we caught the Shinkansen Train for Tokyo.
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Here is a map. Tokyo is at the bottom (South). Go north and look for Fukushima, turn left and go to Shinjo - that's where the Shinkansen Train ends. It actually passes through Kazuya's hometown, but that town is too small, so it doesn't stop there. That's the end of the north country vacation. On January 5th - back in Tokyo, we went to some new country, specifically, a Hot Spring we had never visited before.
This shows Mt. Bukou - a major source of Calcium Carbonate (for making cement), which is the major sight in that Hot Spring Town.
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This row of photos was taken in the Taito Area of Tokyo on Saturday January 14th. The first shot is an old style baked goods shop - cookies and snacks. The next shot is a temple - lots of temples in this area of town. The 3rd shot is an Indigo cloth shop. Kazuya bought 3 very nice blue pieces (Indigo of course is always blue).
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Also the Taito Area. First shot is an old building, which seemed to be selling ONLY beer! The next shot is a reconstructed old style Sake shop - it's actually a Panorama of 2 shots. Look at the size of the Sake bottles on the right. The 3rd shot is the old style Sake shop from the outside. As you can see, it was a rainy day, but we had a good time anyway.
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Two more old buildings - in these shots you can really see the rain coming down. You just don't see old buildings like this in Tokyo nowadays - have to go and search for them.
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On January 21st it snowed in Tokyo - first real snow of the season. It actually accumulated to about 5 inches. Kazuya and I went to Hama Rikyu Gardens and took several pictures - here are the best 3 of them. In the 2nd and 3rd photos you can get an idea of how hard it's snowing. You can see additional Hama Rikyu Gardens pictures in "June 2005's Photos".
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Usually near the end of January we go to Bubaigawara Plum Park and see the first plum blossoms of the season, but this has been such a cold year - and is still so cold - that on January 28th this was the most "open" plum blossom we found!
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This is now a link to a separate web page showing 3 photos of our DVD Collection, an AVI Movie of our Home Theater System and 9 photos of our Sharp Aquos TV.
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| Dec 2005 DVD Collection - 3 Photos Movie of Home Theater System & New TV Pictures (new window) |
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