A kinki guy - [sorry for the bad picture quality]
Uniform
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Faces from Japan
Reading mangas - from the back to forth and from the right to the left...
Work hard - play hard
All time is sleeping time
Wedding suits
Typically from Japan
Umbrellas are available for free everywhere. You do not have to take an umbrella with you - if it starts raining, you just have to ask one from the shop/restaurant/etc where you were, and they will give you 1 for free - even if you are a tourist. When you do not need the umbrella any more, just leave it at the next place....
Pachinko - is a Japanese gaming device used for amusement and prizes. Although pachinko machines were originally strictly mechanical, modern pachinko machines are a cross between a pinball machine and a video slot machine.
Pachinko - is a Japanese gaming device used for amusement and prizes. Although pachinko machines were originally strictly mechanical, modern pachinko machines are a cross between a pinball machine and a video slot machine.
Travelling - public transport
When I first had to use the public transport system in Japan, i had a kind of "lost in translation" feeling. For illustration, this is the metro system in Tokyo:
Impressive isn't it?
and in most cases, we had to find our way in a map like this - full of Japanese characters:
first hesitation:
Train in Japan
From Hiroshima to Osaka we have traveled with the famous Shinkansen trains at the speed of 210 km/h. Since the initial Tōkaidō Shinkansen opened in 1964 running at 210 km/h, the network (2,459 km) has expanded to link most major cities on the islands of Honshū and Kyūshū with running speeds of up to 300 km/h (188 mph), in an earthquake- and typhoon-prone environment. Test run speeds have been 443 km/h (275 mph) for conventional rail in 1996, and up to a world record of 581 km/h (361 mph) for maglev trainsets in 2003. The famous suicides happened with the driver of these trains who committed suicide after a few minutes of delay...
The train was extremely convenient, did not feel the speed at all (in particularly because we have been using all of our free time - especially the traveling times for sleeping :)).
We had 2 minutes to get on the train and take or seats.
Impressive isn't it?
and in most cases, we had to find our way in a map like this - full of Japanese characters:
first hesitation:
Train in Japan
From Hiroshima to Osaka we have traveled with the famous Shinkansen trains at the speed of 210 km/h. Since the initial Tōkaidō Shinkansen opened in 1964 running at 210 km/h, the network (2,459 km) has expanded to link most major cities on the islands of Honshū and Kyūshū with running speeds of up to 300 km/h (188 mph), in an earthquake- and typhoon-prone environment. Test run speeds have been 443 km/h (275 mph) for conventional rail in 1996, and up to a world record of 581 km/h (361 mph) for maglev trainsets in 2003. The famous suicides happened with the driver of these trains who committed suicide after a few minutes of delay...
The train was extremely convenient, did not feel the speed at all (in particularly because we have been using all of our free time - especially the traveling times for sleeping :)).
We had 2 minutes to get on the train and take or seats.
Back home
Snitt!
After 2 weeks and almost 24 hours of travelling i arrived back home!
Well, and i brought some presents with me! :)
I have changed a bit of the concept of the blog and will show you thematic pictures about this last 2 weeks.After 2 weeks and almost 24 hours of travelling i arrived back home!
Well, and i brought some presents with me! :)
Let's see then!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
