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Japan: an unforgettable trip I'd do all over again

FRFrancesca1987 ·15 photographs ·3 Sep 2005 – 12 Sep 2005 ·10 days
Where
Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Hakone, Kobe, Himeji, Miyajima, Nara
When
3 Sep 2005 – 12 Sep 2005
10 days · trip of 2005
Who
Francesca · @Francesca1987 · Roma
How
Travel diary
The story

Armed above all with a video camera to capture the sounds and the movements of the country I love most in the world, I wasn't able to take many photos, though in the end, thanks to my not being lazy, I did manage to take some. Japan is just as I imagined it, it's as they describe it in manga, it's as it looks in the photographs you find online and in magazines; but when I got there my expectations multiplied a hundred thousand times, if not more. It's a fantastic country — if I close my eyes I feel as if I'm still there, walking the streets of Kyoto or Tokyo or all the other cities I visited. It's a country I love and I hope to go and live there as soon as possible... Tokyo is stunning and packed with people,... very chaotic; think that when I took the underground at 11.30 at night it was still crowded... The services are incredibly efficient everywhere....

I warmly recommend visiting it at least once in your life, it's truly worth it — it's, as they say, a mix of tradition and technology, and it's not just a cliché.... Anyone who wants to see more photos can go to my Spaces! bye =) if you have questions just ask me bye ^^

The journey's photographs

15 photographs · click to open them full screen

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Kinkaku-ji Golden Pavilion reflected in the pond surrounded by green treesBuddhist temple with grey tiled roofs and white walls under cloudy skyThe great Todai-ji temple in Nara among trees and green lawnFive-story pagoda of Senso-ji temple, man walks under gray skyDense city buildings under grey sky, seen from above among treesLooney Tunes character statues displayed in a shop windowWoman in front of the Children's Peace Monument in HiroshimaWoman in front of Hiroshima Cenotaph, flowers on a marble altarTourists beneath the giant red lantern of Kaminarimon Gate, TokyoCardboard cutouts in kimonos in front of Osaka CastleGolden Kinkaku-ji pavilion reflected in pond, trees framing the sceneStone bridge with two arches over the moat of Tokyo Imperial PalaceBlonde woman in jeans beside the Hiroshima atomic bomb domeStone lion statue in front of a red Japanese temple pavilion, visitors nearbyScooter and yellow excavator at a roadworks site among Akihabara's buildings

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