Life in Japan - Pictures galore !! Arcades, Temples, Rainy days, etc

**Oldgamingfart** · 06-30-2008

Cool thread, I've always been fascinated with Japan (hard not to being a gamer), so seeing pictures of more or less everyday life there is very interesting.
Nice one Yakumo, and all others who have posted pics so far :thumbsup:

**ianoid** · 07-02-2008

I likey this thread alot. The pictures are fascinating.

**Yakumo** · 07-02-2008

You're welcome guys. Anyone is free to post pictures of Japan here so let's hope more members that visit will do :thumbsup:

Yakumo

**GaijinPunch** · 07-07-2008

Enjoy!

**Tatsujin** · 07-07-2008

wow..THIS..IS..JAPAN!!

**Oldgamingfart** · 07-07-2008

It looks like a Crocodile.

**Tatsujin** · 07-23-2008

the momentary score on my yamada denki pointcard:

**Yakumo** · 07-23-2008

That's a nice selection of points. At one time I had almost 10'000 points on mine. Needless to say that they have been used. Got my self two wii games with them.! My card now though had the machine make a mess of it giving me 43 tries. Just a shame I keep getting 10 bloody points each time I put it in to the machine :(

Sorry for the crappy picture. Metallic items don't seem to scan very well.

Yakumo

**Tatsujin** · 07-23-2008

yeah.. i had a 500 hit few times ago. but ever since then a 20 hit is the max.

but this time i more like to refere to the exact amount i have now on the card :)

**GaijinPunch** · 07-25-2008

I have 3300 or so on my Sakuraya card. I took a picture but it came out like shit so I didn't post it.

**cez** · 08-17-2008

I went to Nagasaki during O-bon holiday and put some pics online:

http://picasaweb.google.com/caniscontentus/Nagasaki

It's a really fascinating city with its long history of Western influence. Most of the photos are not very interesting without an explanation I guess, but you'll get a few impressions. It's really worth a visit.

More forum related, I also spent a few hours in Fukuoka on the way back and dropped into Mandarake. Nice selection of rare stuff (Rendering Ranger loose for around 18.000!) but most of the normal games are quite expensive, esp. for Dreamcast.

**GaijinPunch** · 08-18-2008

Nice pics. I've never seen half a torii before, either.

**Yakumo** · 08-18-2008

Nice collection of pictures indeed.

Yakumo

**Codeman** · 08-20-2008

Originally Posted by Yakumo

You're welcome guys. Anyone is free to post pictures of Japan here so let's hope more members that visit will do :thumbsup:

Yakumo

that reminds me.. I still havent posted any of my pics from my 2005 trip, have I? xD

I only have a few online+

My desk in KYOTO

hide MUSEUM

random SHIBUYA picture

Ill post more picture later

**ShadowGuy** · 08-22-2008

Wow, I never realized how fascinated people are with Japan... this is a LOT of pictures of Okinawa, which is like the Hawaii of Japan. It's not exactly the same but pretty similar, people here are much nicer than what everyone calls 'mainlanders'. It's the difference between the rural south and New York, in US terms.

http://nickguyver.com/?level=collection&id=1

**GaijinPunch** · 08-25-2008

I think the Hawaii of Japan is indeed Hawaii. ;)

**Jamtex** · 08-31-2008

From hotel window in Kyoto. :)

Every august at the end of Obon, they celebrate by burning large picture fires in the Gozan Fire Festival. Here are the best non blurry shots I could find in the 100s of pictures I took from a park in the middle of Kyoto which you can see 4 of the 5 fires, although two of them are hard to see clearly, so the Dai kanji and boat are the ones I took the best photos of as they were much nearer.

**ave** · 09-01-2008

Have you been in the park near the river, between Marutamachi and Imadegawa?
I was at last years Daimonji-Okuribi at this place and just like you, only managed to get a handful non-blurry shots out of about 100. Fantastic festival, I can recommend a visit to anybody who plans to go to Japan during summer.

Here are some pictures from last year:
http://picasaweb.google.de/julian.er...30751535323362
http://picasaweb.google.de/julian.er...30781600094450

I have a lot more, including from the Funagate amd Myo/Ho-Kanji, but I thought they are too blurry to upload.
I love how eager the Japanese are with their traditions. The afternoon before the Okuribi, I spoke to a guy who worked at a wishplate thing at Ryôanji-dera and although he knew I wouldn't understand more than 10% of what he said, he continued to tell me all the history of the festival plus how many members of his family are climbing the hills to install the fires and so on. ^_^