Some photos of our trip to Sawara in Chiba Prefecture over the 3 day weekend a couple weeks back.

On the way to Sawara we stopped at Chiba Station and had lunch at a place called Common Café. I order a burger not expecting a lot, but it was the best burger I've had in a long time actually.

We arrived a bit late in Sawara and were kind of tired so we decided to just go to the hotel, shower and relax for a bit and then have dinner.
We had a reservation at a French restaurant called Mougins and it ended up being a really great experience.

After eating dinner we were headed back to the hotel and we heard some hayashi and cheering in the distance and we decided to check out what was happening. We found a dashi parading through the streets and they were stopping at different places to pick up alcohol lol. Apparently they'd been doing it every Sunday, I think since corona started.
It was pretty cool to see though.

The next day we went to check out the Sawara Historical District and after reaching our destination we decided to take a break at a cafe. We ordered a shaved ice and some sort of soda. They were both really delicious, especially the shaved ice. It was some sort of flavor using tea from Kyoto and milk. I forget what it was called exactly though.

We also stopped by the former residence of Inoh Tadataka, the famous Japanese cartographer.
It was quite interesting seeing where he lived.
After visiting his residence, we to the nearby museum and learned about his life and everything he did.

I was pretty blown away by how incredible he actually was. I was a bit surprised that I hadn't learned much about him when I was studying the history of Japan, but after visiting the museum I'm convinced he was truly a genius.

Unfortunately I couldn’t take pictures inside of the museum, but seeing all of the tools that he used to draw maps and learning how they worked was really interesting.
On top of that, the maps he drew were unbelievably accurate.
I think it mentioned somewhere that his maps were used until the 1900's, despite being drawn several hundred years prior.
His cartography was only one of the endeavors he pursued as well. There were also some documents that explained how he helped his town get through the famine, and also documents detailing how he dealt with local lords imposing taxes on his town.

Besides the museum, we also took a boat ride through the canal that ran through the historical district.
The canal was quite nice, and you could see the historical buildings that lined the sides of it while going through it.
We had to lower the cover on the boat for several bridges as the water level was quite high due to the recent rains, but that just made the experience even more memorable.

The tour guide on the boat mentioned how when the canal was used back in the Edo period, it was incredibly busy and boats would have been bumping into each other constantly while passing through.

During the boat ride through the canal I noticed some interesting statues on various lanterns and decided to check them out. They all turned out to be interesting and unique.

We ended our trip by having a late lunch near the historical district.
We had planned to take a train back to Tokyo but missed it by a few minutes.
Fortunately, a bus arrived at the perfect time and so we rode that back to Tokyo. It was much better than the crowded trains.

Overall it was a really good day-trip style excursion and I definitely recommend it!
Managed to find 2 poke lids too!

Over 5 million red spider lily is bloomed here in Kinchakuda park in Hidaka city of Saitama prefecture. The bright colors of this flower attracts the tourist from a long distance apart. Here the one flower bloomed over the top of the red carpet like colors. This flower is very eager to show its beauty to the flower lovers.

長野県地獄谷温泉この光景見たさに6時間かけて来たのですが、常にお猿さんが温泉に入ってると思い、ワクワクしながら娘を抱っこして山道をひたすら歩いたのですが、誰も入っていなくてショックでした😭
そこから何とかお猿さんが温泉に入ってる光景を撮影したくてかなり待ったのですが、ほんの一瞬でそこからは全然入ってくれませんでした😅

京丹後久美浜にある桟橋
今まで見た桟橋で一番お気に入りの場所😌ここも天気の良い日は桟橋から満点のプラネタリウムを眺める事が出来てこの日は残念ながら曇りだったのですが、早朝雲の隙間から光芒見る事が出来感動でした😌

京丹後にある立岩の天の川
この日は結構荒波で風が強く撮影機材が倒れてびしょ濡れに😭それでも小宇宙の様で綺麗でした😌

A scarlet autumn morning in a traditional way at Kinchakuda park in Saitama prefecture. This is most probably the biggest place to see the red spider lilies in Japan. A very vast area turns like a red carpet. This unique flowers and a traditional touch makes the day perfect.

以前食べた揚州商人のネギラーメン๑´ڡ`๑

さいたま新都心いってきました

画像拡大推奨です

A scarlet autumn morning in a traditional way at Kinchakuda park in Saitama prefecture. This is most probably the biggest place to see the red spider lilies in Japan. A very vast area turns like a red carpet. This unique flowers and a traditional touch makes the day perfect.

古き良き日本庭園のある場所。水の流れる音や金木犀の香り、ここにいると時間がゆっくり過ぎるような静かで落ち着ける場所。日本人で良かったと思える瞬間。

地元の神社。ここに来るとパワーを貰えます。以前花火大会の時に撮影した写真には緑のオーブが映っていました。それは自然の精霊たそうです。お疲れモードをリフレッシュできるおすすめスポットです。

私の家族は妹二人と両親のご人家族。この日は久しぶりに家族旅行へ行きました。目的地は高千穂峡。初めての宮崎。自然を味わいリフレッシュできました。

Beautiful river and mountains at Kamikochi, Nagano.

This photo was taken during the Golden week of 2017. It's spring but there's already snow around this place.

If you love nature, this is one of the recommended places to visit here in Japan.

This photo was taken in May 2017 at Kamikochi in Nagano. My first impression of this place was, "it's a real-life painting".

The beautiful Azusa river is surrounded by snowy mountains, and there are lots of Japanese white birch tree in the area.

Since then, Kamikochi has become my favorite place in Japan. I often come here once a year before Corona happened.

コンビナートの夜景をビルの屋上より四日市港とコンビナート一望を、切り撮りました。又冬の為、とても空気が澄み切つて鮮やかな夜景が撮れました。

When I first heard about shirakawago in 2015 from then had dream to visit this place someday. Finally my dream come true and today I visited the most picture perfect and iconic village of Japan. I feel an unexplainable joy and time goes very fast to enjoy the beauty. The beautiful and unique gassho-zukuri village on a pre-autumn rainy morning. The traditional house, the rice fields, cosmos flowers, the green mountains and the alleys of pines what else we need to see. The whole atmosphere is so beautiful.

初めての熱海旅行
初めての温泉旅館
初めての花火大会
まだ2人の初めてがたくさんあったことに隣で花火見上げてる彼の手握った

夜景を撮りに函館山へ。町の反対側を見ると
海と夕焼けが綺麗でした

犬山城のふもとに有る神社が、ピンク色のハートが絵馬が、奉納されています、とてもインスタ映えの前でカプルが、写真を撮ている光景がとても、微笑ましく感動しました。三光神社の赤鳥居と絵馬を切り撮りました。

福井県勝山恐竜博物館へいつてきました。この時は館内工事中の為、中に入れませんでした、広場で遊んでいたら、この様なインスタ映えの構図が有り切り撮りました。

岐阜県に有る、モネの池です。この池の水は湧き水でとても澄み切っているため、コイも、浮き上がつ見えます、特にインスタ映えします。

京都の嵐山の大覚寺に行った時の写真です。
今にも雨が降りそうな感じです。

伊根に向かう前にどうしても撮影しておきたかった京丹後にある間人立岩！夜中に到着した時に、人生初天の川アーチを目の当たりにし感動でした。
そして真北に位置するこの場所で試したかったのが星の軌跡😌

夜中のAM2時頃だったので夜が明けるとかなり焦り構図探るにも真っ暗で難しくどうしても中心を撮影したかったので、仕方なく川に浸かりびしょ濡れになり、川の中心に三脚セットし、この頃まだ4月初旬だったので凍えながら撮影してたのを覚えていて苦労はしたもののプラネタリウムにいるみたいで写真が完成した時は良かったなと思えた瞬間もありました。
聖徳太子の母・間人皇后と深いつながりがあり銅像もありこの立岩を見守ってます

普段の砂丘とは違う真冬の砂丘真っ白で綺麗なのですが、悪天候で極寒で大変でした😅

冬の砂丘到着時もう吹雪で撮影は諦めたのですが徐々に雪が落ち着きだしたタイミングで撮影しました😀

何度でも訪れたくなるのが、鳥取砂丘うちの家族が来ると必ず天候が悪く晴れ晴れした砂丘はまだ見た事がないのですが、何度でも訪れたい
そんな場所です😌

淡路島の南淡路に来ました。
全国ご同地パーガーグランプリで、1位を取った事のあるお店です。

同じ場所から鳴門大橋が綺麗に見えました。

淡路夢舞台にある円形ホール
安藤忠雄さんの建築は素晴らしく映画「亜人」の舞台にもなり、ここへ来ると安藤忠雄さんの世界観に引き込まれます

鳥取県日野郡根雨町に古くからある神社です。漢字の意味はリッチ、お金持ち。その名の通り参拝するとお金に恵まれるといいます。私自身、こちらへお参りしてから、臨時収入が増えたり、仕事が順調です。ご覧くださった皆様にも、良いことがありますように。

岐阜県郡上市のお寺さんのお座敷より紅葉した、庭園を切り撮りました。