奥多摩湖の秋を目に焼き付けて

緑から赤へ
季節の移ろい

成田山公園 照る紅葉のグラデーション

Some more photos from Asukayama Park!

The first monument is a bit difficult for me to read so I had to do a bit of research, but it seems to be a commemorative monument signifying the planting of various trees throughout the park to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration, and as such, was constructed in 1968, so it's about 50 years old, probably one of the newer monuments of its kind within the park.

When I was walking back around the area I saw the dance stage from a different angle and managed to take a photo of the participants through a nice gap in the trees. There were a lot more participants this time so I stopped and watched it for a little while again.

At the other end of the park I found this statue of a woman which is actually a statue of the "Goddess of peace" and it was erected in 1974 to wish for world peace and happiness.
Even cooler, it was erected by the famous sculptor Seibo Kitamura who erected the "Peace Statue" at Peace Memorial Park in Nagasaki.
Really cool to see his works all the way in Tokyo as well!

山～

群馬県みどり市にある、小中大滝&栃木県日光市の華厳の滝の紅葉?

Some more photos I took at Asukayama Park the other day. I really liked this statue of Avalokitesvara, as I felt like it was really well crafted. I included the description to this monument as it's hard to read what is carved onto the stone and it's written in older Japanese too so my friends couldn't even read it lol.

I think it has something to do with a poem about cherry blossoms although I could be wrong about that.

It's pretty cool seeing the older Japanese from hundreds of years ago though. Even if I can't read it it's interesting to see how the Japanese language itself has evolved throughout the years. I'll be posting more photos of this place tomorrow as well!

十和田市の神社の階段に陽が差した5分程度だけに見る事が出来ました。

Went to Asukayama Park near Oji Station yesterday. I've passed by the area many times and seen the gondola leading to the top but never knew what was up there until now. It's a really big park dedicated to Shibusawa Eiichi, known as the father of capitalism in Japan.

The park has a bunch of monuments and cultural properties to check out so I managed to take a lot of photos and I'll be uploading them over the next few days. I chose a good day to go it seems too, as there was an event going on. It involved some traditional dances (I think from the Oji area), and it involved some sort of sash that kind of reminded me of a kimono obi, but I'm not sure exactly what it is. They had a taiko drum as well but it seems I didn't make it in time to watch them playing, I only heard it in the distance when I was walking to the park.

I thought it was really cool seeing all the different monuments though. Many of them were several hundred years old and the Japanese on them was also and older form, so it was hard for me to read a lot of them lol. It was a really enjoyable experience though, so I'll upload some more photos tomorrow!

夏を越え秋を迎えたアジサイは
時間をかけてアンティーク色に変化して
秋色アジサイとなりました

秋バラが見頃

鳴鐘山東勝寺宗吾霊堂は
義民･佐倉宗吾を祀る成田の古刹
今年も紅葉の季節となりました

嵯峨･江戸･伊勢･奥州･肥後･丁子
歴博･くらしの植物苑で今年も｢伝統の古典菊｣始まりました
秋から冬への風物詩です

神社にも秋迎えて来ました
山梨県富士吉田市に
いつもお世話になっております
また伺いますのですねよろしくお願いします

宗吾霊堂は義民･佐倉宗吾を祀る成田の古刹
今年も紅葉のグラデーションが始まりました

Some photos I took while passing through the area. Lit up trees ready for Christmas near Toyocho Station! I also spotted these pandas around a Christmas tree at Ueno Station as well and thought it was cute.

It's funny how fast Halloween ends and almost immediately we start to see Christmas decorations lol. It's not dissimilar with the US though. Every time Halloween ends it's like someone flips a switch and suddenly all of the Halloween decorations become Christmas decorations.

Speaking of Halloween though, I actually saw children trick or treating in the streets this year which was really nice considering all the restrictions over the past 2 years. It also seems like the culture of Halloween has started to become a bigger part of Japanese culture over the last 5 years or so.

I still love that Christmas is a dating holiday in Japan though. It feels like a romantic holiday anyways, I think it's better this way personally.

銀杏並木のグラデーション

青空に映えるヤマハゼのシルエット

夕焼け～(*´ω｀*)

小さなお地蔵さん(*´ω｀*)

半田市
ごんぎつねの里
秋桜

秋の鹿さん

秋のお地蔵さん

紅葉並木

カナダのような紅葉

#beautifuldestination #mapleleaf

#紅葉 #instaphoto #autumn
#秋 #drive #ドライブ #はなまっぷ紅葉
#niceview #breathtakingview

東京ドイツ村の秋、
カラフルなマムがある。
半球状の菊が花を咲かせている。
別の雰囲気を感ぜられた。

山ユリの実だと思います。近所の山に沢山ありました。こうやって、ちゃんと飾って記念撮影して残す作業。気に入っています。