My stay in Japan.

[hodsgod]

I recently came back from 3 years in Japan. I don't have so many photos. You think it's never going to end when you are there. I Lived in Yokohama so most of the pics will be from there.

Hase Kannon temple Garden in Kamakura
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Barbecue fish in Roppongi
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k57/hodsgod/CIMG0426.jpg

Temple in Yokohama Chinatown.
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k57/hodsgod/lastdayinJapan089.jpg

The view from my apartment
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k57/hodsgod/Picture543.jpg

Kinkakuji Kyoto
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k57/hodsgod/kandhari010.jpg

I will add some more photos soon.

[babyblu]

man u lucky:nice:

[hodsgod]

Summer firework festival in Yamashita Koen, Yokohama
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View from Yamashita Koen to Minato Mirai and Landmark Tower (Japan's tallest building)
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k57/hodsgod/lastdayinJapan067.jpg

Playing football in Yokohama Stadium (non baseball season)
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k57/hodsgod/08012006001.jpg

My football team.
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k57/hodsgod/7.jpg

[Candyman]

Hello,

Please upload your pics directly to the forum instead of embedding. Thanks.

[hodsgod]

Hello,

Please upload your pics directly to the forum instead of embedding. Thanks.

I read the posting photos thread and it did say you could do either. I will change it in future though.

[hodsgod]

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Tsukiji fish market

[hodsgod]

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From l to r, sunset from my apartment, overlooking Yokohama bay, two photos of Sankei-en garden, Lake Hakone and Fuji San

[hodsgod]

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Climbing Fuji over night, sun rise from the summit of Fuji, Bon Odori festival at Roppongi hills, Gin nan trees in Tokyo, In miyakojima (Okinawa)

[hodsgod]

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All taken in kamakura, at the Daibutsu (biggest Buddha in Japan)

[muddgutts]

Outstanding photo's, thanks for sharing. I've been to Yokohama many times with my wife to visit her family, and love the town myself. Its funny because i've been to many of the same locations and your photo's bring back good memories. I'm looking forward to returning soon i hope.

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Muddy

[Dyka]

I read the posting photos thread and it did say you could do either. I will change it in future though.

Please link me to the thread that says this and I will adjust the rules accordingly since that is totally wrong to our policies.

Also, please attach the other photos you posted in the beginning. Thanks!

[drilla19]

Their baseball field for some odd reason looks like a little league stadium.

Nice pictures, I shall be there in a year or so so JOY!

[omfgwtf]

Please link me to the thread that says this and I will adjust the rules accordingly since that is totally wrong to our policies.

Also, please attach the other photos you posted in the beginning. Thanks!


http://forum.scanlover.com/faq.php?faq=vb3_reading_posting#faq_vb3_attachments

"or by typing before the URL and after it, ensuring that you do not have any spaces before or after the URL of the image"


Amazing pics man!
Good view of the ferris from Yamashita, I can see the Pan Pacific and InterContinental Hotels too!

Thanks for sharing

[Masaki]

Where are the guards? ROFL...
I heard the kinkakuj Temple were heavily guarded? lol.. i was joking with one of my friends last time, about going there and scraping off the golds..
:blush:

[hodsgod]

I went to Japan to stay with my in-laws for Christmas and New year, and was fortunate to go back at the end of Jan for a business trip. Some more photos:

New years dinner, Queing to pray on New Years Day, The view over Yokohama Bay, Venue for the tea ceremony, Gero Onsen

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[bagobones]

三年間？私も！日本語は？
二回ぐらい横浜に行ったけど、静岡で住んでいた。

[James Trump]

very nice japan

[hodsgod]

三年間？私も！日本語は？
二回ぐらい横浜に行ったけど、静岡で住んでいた。

Yes a great 3 years, and it was the second time I lived there. Going back for two weeks with my wife to visit family. End of July/August.

[colsanders]

Doesn't Yokohama hit 40°C in the summer? That might not be much for some members of the forum, but people are dying (literally in some cases) here in the UK as a result of the 32°C "heatwave" :exhausted:

I'd really like to follow my girlfriend back to Kansai next year and make some in-laws of my own, but it's looking increasingly difficult...

[hodsgod]

Doesn't Yokohama hit 40°C in the summer? That might not be much for some members of the forum, but people are dying (literally in some cases) here in the UK as a result of the 32°C "heatwave" :exhausted:

I'd really like to follow my girlfriend back to Kansai next year and make some in-laws of my own, but it's looking increasingly difficult...

No it's never that hot in Yokohama, but where my Wife comes from, Kani city in Gifu Ken, is in the hottest area of the country. That area does get close to 40.

Anyway I had a fantastic 2 weeks, Yokohama/Tokyo, Okinawa and Kani. It was a shame to go back to England.

[xaltair]

Thanks for the shots, I plan to go to Yokohama this summer, that's where my gf lives. :hi:

[hodsgod]

This is my son, born in December. it's a long time since I started this thread, and look what came out of it. in fact its so long, I am back living in Japan again.

[yupyupyup]

This is my son, born in December. it's a long time since I started this thread, and look what came out of it. in fact its so long, I am back living in Japan again.
Congratulation on your boy, he's adorable.

Please post more pics when you have time. I was in Japan for a visit in January and went to Yokohama in an afternoon from Tokyo, got to walk around in the Nissan building, not really explore the town. Your insight may be helpful for me to plan my next trip :bingo:

[C-Hawking-U]

Congratulations!

Did you name your son yet? Does he have an English/Japanese first name?

[hodsgod]

Congratulations!

Did you name your son yet? Does he have an English/Japanese first name?

His name is Joshua Jun, in the family book his name is Just Joshua (for those that don't know, Japanese only have one given name, there is no provision for a second). In his British birth certificate he has a first and second name. His grandmothers call him Jun, we call him Josh.

[hodsgod]

Congratulation on your boy, he's adorable.

Please post more pics when you have time. I was in Japan for a visit in January and went to Yokohama in an afternoon from Tokyo, got to walk around in the Nissan building, not really explore the town. Your insight may be helpful for me to plan my next trip :bingo:

Do you mean the new Nissan global HQ in minato mirai? I have been in there a few times myself. Yokohama is a wonderful city.

[yupyupyup]

Do you mean the new Nissan global HQ in minato mirai? I have been in there a few times myself. Yokohama is a wonderful city.
I guess it is. I rode the train from Tokyo to Yokohama looking for a live house for a concert and accidentally walked thru the Nissan building. So, what I saw of Yokohama is only from the area surrounding the Nissan building. I kind of like the city by the bay set-up. It'd have been lovely to walk around or ride a bicycle in a Sunday afternoon there.

[sch0c0late]

I'm going to sound like a jerk, but that's not my intent.

A previous post suggested that Kamakura Daibustu was the largest Buddha statue in Japan.

I haven't seen Kamakura Daibutsu in person. But I have been to Nara to see Todaji temple and its daibutsu. That was big.

But last year, I visited the Tsukuba area and got to see Ushiku daibutsu.

Ushiku Daibutsu is the biggest(tallest) Buddha statue in Japan. Period. You can Google it to confirm.

[skfan]

Whatever dude.

That dumb shit in Ibaraki is a NEW statue built very recently....it's just a statue with an elevator so you can go to the top. A desperate and transparent attempt by the Ibaraki tourist council to get people to visit their shitty worthless town.

The biggest Buddha in Japan is in Nara. Everyone knows this. It's inside a big old shrine.

But the BEST fucking Buddha in Japan is in Kamakura. THE Daibutsu. That fucker is EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS OLD. Just take a minute and ponder how really old that is. Damn. And it has been exposed to the elements since a tsunami washed it's temple away hundreds of years ago.

It's all green and weathered cause he sits there winter and summer, winter and summer, winter and summer. All the rain, snow and sun and he just sits there contemplating the totality of existence.

That Buddha in Ibaraki ain't shit. The Daibutsu is where it's at. He's been sitting there pondering the mysteries of the univierse about 8 centuries before you were swimming in your daddy's nutsack, and he's gonna be there meditating on it all long after we're all dead. Now that's fucking cool.

[hodsgod]

There are lots of Buddhas in japan claiming one record or another, Takaoka in Toyama claim to have the second largest, it clearly isn't! It is however larger than Kamakura.

What does it matter, once you have seen one you have seen them all.

[hodsgod]

I'm going to sound like a jerk, but that's not my intent.

A previous post suggested that Kamakura Daibustu was the largest Buddha statue in Japan.

I haven't seen Kamakura Daibutsu in person. But I have been to Nara to see Todaji temple and its daibutsu. That was big.

But last year, I visited the Tsukuba area and got to see Ushiku daibutsu.

Ushiku Daibutsu is the biggest(tallest) Buddha statue in Japan. Period. You can Google it to confirm.

do you believe everything you read on the internet?