[GPGT] Japan Oct 2023, 15 days trip to Tohoku, Kanto and Chubu region

[cleffa3000]

Tohoku is the middle rural areas between tokyo and hokkaido

 

[Bumiputera]

Bookmarked

 

[neucomer]

ts, the meal at post#29 costs 40K Yen??
https://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/...nd-chubu-region.6964888/page-2#post-149932652

 

[zoossh]

I'm using 2nd Gen iPhone SE nia, so if you zoom into the pics, the details are not very clear

The food will look nicer if more close upbut limited by minimal focusing distance

I’m using iphone se3 leh. How come yours looks better?

the others looks great! Must be very good light there

 

[spinning_quirK]

enjoy TS. I just came back from Japan. Japan is rich in culture and so beautiful

SG is a slum compared to JP

But try being a salaryman in JP.

 

[MajiMax]

ts, the meal at post#29 costs 40K Yen??
https://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/...nd-chubu-region.6964888/page-2#post-149932652

I order 2 glasses of plum wine and 1 glass of beer, so total damage was 49,368 yen after the service charge.

 

[MajiMax]

The food will look nicer if more close upbut limited by minimal focusing distance

I’m using iphone se3 leh. How come yours looks better?

the others looks great! Must be very good light there

Really need adequate lighting to take photo. I have some photos, the sun was facing directly at me, so ended up the photos got dark dark.

 

[MajiMax]

Day 2

I left Tokyo and made my way up to the prefecture in the Tohoku, Aomori prefecture.

Summer is the only season that I have not visited Japan. And I always wanted to visit Tohoku for their summer festival and fireworks, but the weather/temperature in Summer deters me from visiting.

So now, I will be visiting the museum that gives visitors a taste of its lively atmosphere, history and traditions of the Nebuta Matsuri (festival).

Quite an unique façade for the building.

There is a part of the museum which displays the top lantern floats that were built for past festivals (starting from Year 1962.

 

[MajiMax]

Day 2 (cont)

 

[MajiMax]

Day 2 (cont)

There is a live performance at certain timing for visit to experience.

Staff playing the festival music, you can unmute for the audio in this pic.


Also, the staff will teach the visitors how to perform the festival dance and the crowd can dance together, but I paiseh to dance

Besides the festival dance, visitor also get to try out the festival instruments used in the above clip.

Continuing to explore the rest of the museum

 

[neucomer]

ts, every year you sure go Japan except the Covid years?

 

[MajiMax]

Day 2 (cont)

Had my lunch at https://tabelog.com/en/aomori/A0201/A020101/2009294/ which was just across the museum.

Tempura cold udon, 1 piece of prawn and 4 pieces of seasonal vegetable at 1,000 yen nia.

 

[MajiMax]

ts, every year you sure go Japan except the Covid years?

You are right, but so far I only went 6 trips prior to this trip, three Autumn, two Spring and one Winter.

There are edmwers who had went to Japan for more than 10x ~ 20x trips already.

 

[wadtheEel]

Nice photos. Look forward to more pics.

 

[dk44.32]

Nice. Never explored this area before.

 

[DW]

Solo trip?

Any plans to wack king crab and uni there?

 

[MajiMax]

Day 2 (cont)

After lunch, I went to check out this place to see what's inside.

There were several eateries and shops inside selling local products. Aomori is famous for its apples, so you can expect many local products or food items to be made from apples.

Beside the A-Factory, there is this ferry museum that you can visit. Ferries were used as the mode of transport to get to Hokkaido before the building of the railway tunnel. My previous job has allowed me to get on board many ships, so I decided to skip it.

Further down, there is this monument facing the Hakodate port in Hokkaido prefecture.

 

[HikingPoh]

Looks like you had a great trip! I was in Japan this summer and it was particularly warm and humid due to El Nino, even in places like Hokkaido.

Do you speak Japanese by the way?

 

[MajiMax]

Solo trip?

Any plans to wack king crab and uni there?

It was a solo trip, and it has always been a solo trip, life of a FA

Only had Uni.

 

[MajiMax]

Looks like you had a great trip! I was in Japan this summer and it was particularly warm and humid due to El Nino, even in places like Hokkaido.

Do you speak Japanese by the way?

Cannot speak Japanese, only know how to say Thank You, Sorry and Hello in Japanese.

A lot of the hikers that I passed by them, they would greet konnichiwa. Did it happened to you as well?