Monday, February 2, 2009

some more japan land for you all

another japan update, the last one. learned alot from them, the way they live in general etc.
we went to a really amazing bike shop. i bougt a dvd here. not bad not bad at all.
mmmmm anyone want a new hat, i was so overcome with choice here i didnt buy one. like a kid in a candy store who takes to long to decide and doesnt end up with anything.
fixie, i miss riding mine
the busiest intersection in the world, on average 15000 people a day cross here. it was pretty crazy to watch, i have footage of this somewhere, insane!!!
not sure why this photo is soo far away, but this was the first fixie rider i saw.
amazing pancake with icecream and marshmellows in it.
skateboarding is even on vending machines. crazy times.
a high lift to the tower records shop. amazing view
on our way from daves place to the station, this was a pet shop, all the dogs in little white boxes. soo damn cute.
awwwwww
got up at 4am to go to the biggest fish market in the country, it was insane, all in the name of blue fin tuna, these fish were massive, and a full auction to see who gets what one etc.

inspecting the fishies.
and more looking
cold as blocks of ice, but big $$$$$
cant beat half a litre of beer on a long train ride.
this was at a 7-11, pretty much the only fish i could afford.
i'll get that for you little lady.
she was at the train station. zzzz rather loudly.
mount fuji taken on a train going 315km/h 
we saw this and were like oh back in the day they had an elephant here, it would suck if it was still here as it had to live in a tiny house and play here.....
not very fun at all. well lets go see whats in the house now then...
oh shit.. the fully grown elephant still here, he could barely turn around, it was really bad.

ye happy couple. we thought we were cold here, im in helsinki now and its minus 15!!
on this island the deer were much less friendly, even taking babys.
this is an important thing to the japanese, so lets get a tourist shot.
this is the main one, we got there in low tide so it wasnt as good, but we did get to walk upto it and see how big it was etc.they were actually called the floating gates.
big!
i can laugh at most things etc, but here at hiroshima it was a time to just think. crazy, the broken building in the distance is a building left stading after the bomb went off directly over the building.the first ever attack with nuclear power.learning how and why they chose this place was amazing to learn about.

they interviewd a bunch of peole and this was one of the quotes.
it happened at 8-15am. a watch that was ina glass case to view
time since the first blast and since the latest nuclear test. 

it looked like this before the bomb. then to this.....
in a split second. only 9 buildings left standing.

we are now in helsinki finland. will update soon.
see ya

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The hiroshima bomb must ve been sooo chilling for you both - such a stark reminder of the past no. The watch was freaky. Japan all look s so clean - even the pet shop!!