Kanazawa

waterfall stone bridge floating teahouse stone pagoda old tree Mozumi dam dormitory and mining town near the dormitory train station a little shrine the shrine on the other side of the river view of the river from the dam view of the road from the dam the temple on the other side of the river vines by the train station a bee's nest (sign reads ``be careful: there is a bee's nest under this sign'') powerline by the dorm shrine and temple spider in context closeup of the spider the spider eats an unlucky moth mist over the river another big moth view of mozumi view of the river from above frederik makes a phone call wei watches while ben tries to look like that one actor with the coffee in the advertisement Super-Kamiokande lab office mine entrance view from the mine parking lot looking down from gondola view of outer detector from gondola group picture (without Bill) ben in the gondola PMTs in the inner detector ben frederik minesan daylight seen from inside the tunnel welder workers in the inner detector ben wei makes a silly face people in the office dusan in the ID wei in the ID another shot of wei in the ID shantanu in the ID minesan in the ID frederik stapling with red eyes frederik on a ladder dusan, shantanu, and clark coordinate markers at the origin car in the mine bob and minesan ben stapling group working in the OD a welder wei in the ID truck leaving the mine workers stapling in the OD workers stapling, 2 bottom of the outer detector Osawano conveyor belt at the sushi restaurant another shot of the conveyor belt the menu minesan and bob group 1 group 2 inside the sushi restaurant ``sunkus'' convenience store (making fun of the way Japanese pronounce ``thanks'') Noto Peninsula moth in context closeup of the moth ben looks at the waves ocean does its thing beach a bridge over the river crooked bridge lantern with moss torii backed by Buddhist figures closer view of the statues trees view of a city (himi?) playground with children another torii/buddhist figure juxtaposition the amazing giant ginkgo tree the shrine of the giant ginkgo trees and moss a grove of trees frederik poses in the grove of trees beach driveway before sunset beach driveway at sunset waves crash sun setting over trees a really big rope between two islands closeup of the shrine of the rope The Road past the Mine buildings and the big pipe hanging bridge a kamoshika view of the valley view of the valley number 2 pool of water at the top of the pipe ben on the stairs view from the bottom of the pipe frederik tries to look sweaty Nagano frederik and yuki pose by matsumoto castle matsumoto castle matsumoto castle again frederik and ben and yuki pose by the moat view of matsumoto from a matsumoto castle shooting hole thing another view from the castle a third view from the castle yuki and ben by the castle frederik and ben by the shrine mashimaru blues to be weighty some cool sculptures frederik and yuki pose by the sculptures frederik and yuki pose by the sculptures again lanterns a cool building another shot of the cool building a torii the shrine lanterns and torii view of torii from the river frog with book frederik wants to be like the frog another frog with a book frog frog bridge Train to Kyoto fake fireplace on the train train station between mozumi and toyama houses on the way to kyoto lake biwako lake biwako, behind a funny building Arrival at Kyoto and Toji Temple activities of the citizens' cultural treasure rescue team toji temple main hall closeup of eaves of the toji temple the toji pagoda closeup of eaves of the toji pagoda frederik poses by the pagoda another shot of frederik by the pagoda pond in the toji garden, with turtles another pond, backed by the pagoda Fushimi Inari Shrine on the way to fushimi inari shrine on a platform in the kyoto station same platform, other direction first torii of the fushimi inari second torii of the fushimi inari a cat contemplates the first two torii a fox which guards the shrine another fox, but on the right main hall of the fushimi inari a whole bunch more torii a fork in the path closeup of the sponsors of the torii a happy pair of lanterns juxtaposition of torii of several different sizes kyoto at night another view of the torii path a landing along the same path Kyoto Station a platform of the kyoto station at night kyoto station from above view across the kyoto station reflection of the kyoto tower in the kyoto station building The Kyoto Imperial Palace guest hall of the imperial palace two interior gates a side gate view of the main hall of the palace woman poses for someone else's camera by a side gate another building closeup of eaves of the palace another building a bridge in a pond another pond, another bridge more bridges and ponds frederik is way out (note: they sometimes use this phrase for exits in England as well) leaving the imperial palace a house in kyoto with a moat behind it Ginkakuji (The Silver Pavilion) silver pavilion waves in the gravel a mountain rises out of the waves a forest garden of the ginkakuji silver pavilion from above mossy path through the forest silver pavilion with a tree sand mountain, framed by the pavilion and a tree tour guides visit the silver pavilion, guided by a meta-tour-guide a building of the temple line of shops leading away from the silver pavilion another encounter with the tour guides a piece of ceramics in one of the shop windows school children sport plaid pants and skirts koizumi poses with the local guy storefront garage tombstones on the way to kiyomizu frederik poses by the tombstones more tombstones Kiyomizu Temple main hall of kiyomizu temple, under repair a view of the repair work a closeup of eaves of one of the buildings front gate inner buildings ben on the bridge bridge, without ben people washing their hands by the water dragon another building view of the platform supporting part of the temple stone figures children drinking from the fountain same fountain, different children the forest from above women walking down the street ceramic masks in a shop another shopping area even sprite has engrish in japan elderly couple another part of the kyoto station Arrival in Tokyo street somewhere big-off department store street again closeup of big-off traffic in front of sanwa bank another view of the traffic interest rates for savings accounts in japan door handle collection you can do it bowling super powered denim dancing girls in the train station woman playing a traditional instrument conductors in the train station escalator over there traffic statistics for the city of tokyo bonsai trees bonsai trees, 2 typical informative street sign taxis taxis, 2 Imperial Palace Gardens Imperial Palace Gardens