Showing posts with label river. Show all posts
Showing posts with label river. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Walking Course #1 to Atsuta Shrine Continued


On my walking course I came across this garden. I was tempted to stop inside, but as I mentioned in my previous post, my goal was to finish the course and not get sidetracked. Although, I will definitely be coming back to this garden since it seemed like there weren't that many people here. And if it is good enough for wedding photos I think it would be good enough to pay a visit!

You can see the photographer perfecting the brides outfit for her photos.






 



 The course brought me back to the river side and I noticed these pictures in the railing! I thought it was a nice idea to add some scenes that used to be seen on the river. It doesn't seem like any boats go up or down this river anymore, but I can imagine that a long time ago, they did.





 They even had a replica of a boat that you could have seen floating on the river!





 If you need to stop and rest there are benches along the way. Although, there are a lot of birds in the area so I'm not sure if you would want to risk stopping under the trees. The bird songs were beautiful to listen to.


 A fountain with the water washing down.


This lantern was placed in the same fountain as the previous photo.

By this point I was getting very thirsty, but the good news is there were plenty of vending machines along the way! I was able to find about 5 just in the vicinity of this fountain.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Itsukushima Gate Up Close: Miyajima, Japan




 This bridge was very high! It was blocked off so you can't try to walk over it, but even if it was open you would need to hang on to the rails to climb up it.





 Too cute! A little boy taking a photo of his parents with their camera. He was asking his parents to move to get a good picture.

かわいい!この男の子は両親のカメラをつかって写真をとってます。














Japanese pine tree.

松の木


Walking on the sand you can see lots of tiny crab walking around and going into holes they dug. There were also a lot of tiny shells with snails(?) inside.