Japan Photos 2025

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It's time for a new photo thread.

The new year is still young, but soon, it will be time to pack up those kadomatsu.

 

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Our new years spread this year. All made from scratch.

Touch of gold leaf

 

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A few from during a break in the rain this morning--Saigawa Jinja. Someone does flowers like that from the first of every month.

 

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Nothing new, just a few impressions of this year's first commute.

 

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Pretty different from the above, please excuse my obsession with this kind of thing....

 

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Pretty different from the above, please excuse my obsession with this kind of thing....

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I like your Flemish vegetable still lives.

 

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Perhaps not as good as others in last year's thread, but worth a try.

 

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Kind of a random collection...

Hakusan this morning,


more rope,


another shop wall,


and two from a walk yesterday.

 

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Nice shots! And I thought you'd gotten more snow.

 

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If your furball has one of these days.

 

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The white ones are the tateyama range, probably 100km away.



Not only the rubber duckies, but marbles on the bottom.

 

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If your furball has one of these days.

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I've never heard of a dog owner deliberately wanting to make their pet more hyper.

 

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Maybe an old dog who mostly sleeps?

 

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Maybe an old dog who mostly sleeps?
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I was imagining something like this

 

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Recently got a book, a quickie-to-read thing called Steal Like an Artist.

So I'm stealing from myself.

 

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Out for a morning walk. A pano from a mini park that overlooks a river.



And I guess it doesn't show well in a pic, but the dead vegetation is on the inside of the windows.



And one more

 

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thomas said:

Nothing new, just a few impressions of this year's first commute.

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Unless I'm very much mistaken, that large tower was used in a MAN WITH A MISSION music video with Milet for the song Kizuna no Kiseki. I loved that music video fr.

 

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Unless I'm very much mistaken, that large tower was used in a MAN WITH A MISSION music video with Milet for the song Kizuna no Kiseki. I loved that music video fr.

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Yes. It's called Tokyo Tower. One of the most famous landmarks in Tokyo. Built in the 1950s, it was modelled after the Eiffel Tower. It's primary function was as broadcast antenna tower.

 

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Travel  Tokyo Tower

Tokyo Travel Guide: Tokyo SkytreeTokyo Tower (東京タワー) is a communication and observation tower completed in 1958. Located in Shiba Park in Tokyo’s Minato Ward, it is one of the most iconic landmarks of the Japanese capital. The tower is used to broadcast 24 television and radio programmes and...

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Was at a museum yesterday, and this is one Noh mask--unusual in that it was the only one with the writing on the inside. My wife took a look but wasn't interested in figuring it out. (it took two tries to get the eyes to 'light up' like that!)

 

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And I took this one before I noticed the 'no picture' icon, which the museum lady kindly point out to me... There was some otherwise unreadable calligraphy next to this explanatory note.

But I liked the title...!

 

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A Japanese phrase to be remembered!

 

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And I took this one before I noticed the 'no picture' icon, which the museum lady kindly point out to me... There was some otherwise unreadable calligraphy next to this explanatory note.

But I liked the title...!

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So it was ok to take a picture of the Noh mask but not this sign placard?

 

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So it was ok to take a picture of the Noh mask but not this sign placard?

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That sounds like official government level logic to me!

 

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Kind of blows me away that TSA catches hundreds of guns at their check through every year. The owners always claim they forgot the gun was in their bag??