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Wagunohama

Wagunohama

I did a fishing trip with about 10 friends in Wagunohama and beach south of Nagoya in Mie prefecture, Japan. 
We must of caught fish off the pier every 2 minutes from 6am to 10am.  It’s a great fishing spot and beach just located about 2 hours south of Nagoya by car. Official websites [...]

Higashiyama Botanical Gardens – Spherical Panorama

Higashiyama Botanical Gardens – Spherical Panorama

Higashiyama Botanical Gardens is located along side the Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya, Japan. Here I created a spherical panorama from the inside inside quicktime.

Spherical panorama – 2nd attempt

Spherical panorama – 2nd attempt

This is my second try taken at the Higashiyama Botanical Gardens in Nagoya. Keep in mind I did this one for practice, it’s done fast and sloppy.
The first big mistake, I forgot to use the aperture “sweet-spot” and everything turned out slightly blurry or soft. I wanted to get the foreground and [...]

Morikoro Park – Fireworks and Fair

Once a year on the 18th 19th of July Morikoro park has fireworks, a fair, a famous Jpop singer,  hip-hop bands and tons of international food stalls.  They also had many hands on crafting like Japanese fans, chopsticks, flying things and solar powered frogs/monkeys.
Morikoro park was the site of the 2005 World Expo in Aichi-ken, [...]

Bokka-no-Sato – Farming theme park

Bokka-no-Sato is a farming, flowers, and crafts type park located high up the mountains in 2756-2 Washimi, Takasu-cho, Gujo city TEL 0575-73-2888 website www.bokka.co.jp. Great for children as there are many things to do like make wooden music boxes, ride horses, games, flowers, and feeding animals. During winter time the area turns [...]

Jokoji Natural Resort Park

Just 35 minutes by train from Nagoya via the JR Chuo line is Jokoji Park in Seto. It has camping, a famous temple called Jokoji built in 1236, Shoden Pond, and many hiking trails. It is an amazing forest park up in the mountains.
Just take the JR Chuo line from Nagoya Station to [...]

Various places around town Nagoya

Haven’t had much time to spend on quality photos lately but have some from around town. Mori-koro park has a ice skating rink we have been going to on the weekends. They also have a pool. The park was the site of the Expo and still has a bunch of things to [...]

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Wagunohama

Wagunohama

I did a fishing trip with about 10 friends in Wagunohama and beach south of Nagoya in Mie prefecture, Japan.  We must of caught fish off the pier every 2 minutes from 6am to 10am.  It’s a great fishing spot and beach just located about 2 hours south of Nagoya by car. Official websites [...]