Photos from posts
Sep 16, 2011
Photos:
a week in Ishinomaki
I went up to the tsunami-hit area in Tohoku for a week of volunteering. Wonderful stuff. Met some of the best people in the world.
Aug 16, 2011
Photos: 24
Kamikochi 2011
This summer's Kamikochi camping trip. Lotsa fun for evrryone. I climbed Tengu Mountain. It kicked my butt.
Aug 12, 2011
Photos: 34
Profile Photos
Album for profile photos
Aug 5, 2011
Photos: 2
Scrapbook Photos
Album for scrapbook photos
Jul 22, 2011
Photos: 5
First Summer Vacation vacation, 2011: 筑波山の隣山: 宝篋山
Me and my coworker, Mrs. Mukohara, met a nice retired flight attendant on the way up.
Photos: 14
Some pics from fall, 2010
Some pics I haven't uploaded that I think are worth a dang.
Dec 13, 2010
Photos: 26
Kamikochi via iPhone
Took me tent up to the highlands to see Kamikochi in the fall. Everything had mostly fallen by then--especially the temperature!--but it was exceptionally beautiful. If only I could volunteer there!
Nov 6, 2010
Photos: 59
Sunburn City
My friend Dan invited Andy and me down to his (rather well off) student's beach house on the southern tip of the Chiba penninsula. I got reacquainted with the ocean after several years away. Yes, despite what you may have heard, Japan is that big.
Aug 22, 2010
Photos: 50
Reckoning Day
Chris's last full day in Japan. A quick trip to Sensoji Temple and a final party with Chiharu at the Aizu izakaya in Moriya.
May 4, 2010
Photos: 38
Day 5: Nikko Day
Misters Winsor and Downey join Miss Chiharu for a frolicking 'round the temples and shrines of Nikko.
May 3, 2010
Photos: 113
Day 3: Nagano Day
Mr Winsor and Mr Downey head for the hills via bullet train.
May 1, 2010
Photos: 73
The Chris Photogory: Days 1 and 2
Chris came to Japan for his first trans-continental vacation and we rocked Golden Week 2010. Days 1 and 2 in Tokyo.
Apr 29, 2010
Photos: 25
iPhone Dump
We'll file this under Misc and be done with it. My first three months in 2010.
Mar 22, 2010
Photos: 52
An Ibaraki Winter Break
A few pics from my post-Hokkaido winter break.
Jan 3, 2010
Hokkaido for Christmas
Chiharu and I took a 3-day trip to the top of Japan for Christmas. We went to the zoo. All the pictures were taken with my iPhone, as an experiment.
Dec 25, 2009
Photos: 66
Mt. Takao in September, Nagano in November
Some stuff I did that I'm finally getting around to posting online. The Nagano trip was a weekendlong date with Chiharu. Her first time to the city.
Nov 23, 2009
Photos: 89
The Upper Highlands
Obon camping trip with Chiharu to Kamikochi, August 10-12, 2009.
Aug 11, 2009
Photos: 84
Trainride Hikeathons
Two daytrips, first with Chiharu to Fukuroda Falls and second with Dan, accidentally, to Oku-Tama.
Aug 4, 2009
Photos: 98
Matsuri
Summer festival season. Watch for updates.
Jul 19, 2009
Photos: 7
Homecoming 2009
First trip home, March 12-26
Mar 12, 2009
Photos: 92
Sayonara
GEOS Goodbye Party - End of February, 2009
Feb 28, 2009
Photos: 20
Tokyo Tour for Angela
I forgot to take pictures most of the time, but I got some nice shots from the top of Shinjuku.
Jan 4, 2009
Photos: 17
The Fall of Nagano
My objectively three-day, subjectively three-week vacation to Nagano in November of 0h-8.
Nov 15, 2008
Photos: 68
Miscellany
Some pictures from here and there.
Sep 1, 2008
Photos: 8
Fukuroda no Taki
Fukuroda is a town in northern Ibaraki, about two hours from where I live. The mountains there are steep, but still somebody went through the trouble of putting up a staircase. The summer pictures are from the summer; the fall pictures are from the fall.
Jul 27, 2008
Koriyama
Sane, Ino, Nobu-chan, and I went to a spa for the holiday weekend, and did much unwinding among the greenery and Caribbean blue. This is the colorfullest album I have so far.
Jul 20, 2008
Photos: 100
Matsumoto & Kamikochi
After Aokigahara, Sane left for Tokyo and I headed for my beloved Nagano--to a handful of places I'd never been, including Matsumoto and the gorgeous Kamikochi nature reserve.
May 1, 2008
Photos: 49
Doomwood
Sane and I went to the tourist part of Aokigahara ("Blue Tree Floor"), aka Jukai ("Forest Sea"). We wanted to go into the part where the cops find the suicides--70ish annually--but the forest was so angry and difficult to manage, we turned back.
Apr 30, 2008
Photos: 71
Moriya
The city where I work, but not a city by Western standards. More of a large -ville. Pictures come from a bunch of times.
Apr 2, 2008
Photos: 13
Kamakura
I took a day off to go sakura-watching. I decided on Kamakura and asked Sane to go with me. There's a cool train that runs from Kamakura to Enoshima called the Eno-den. It's ancient and runs on the road half the time, so cars have to move out the way. Cool.
Photos: 112
sakura@Tsukuba
The Nakata family took me on two strolls to see the cherry blossoms, and then we ate soba. I didn't include pictures of the kids for security, I suppose.
Mar 30, 2008
Photos: 19
Hanami!
Hanami is a picnic under the cherry blossoms during their 10-day bloomfest. With guys my age, that also means copious drinking. And sushi afterwards. And karaoke after that. And ramen afterwards.
Photos: 10
Tokyo
a catch-all for all things Tokyo, beginning on March 24, 2008.
Mar 24, 2008
Photos: 4
Ume Day
Sometime mid-March (2008) Shannon dropped by from Nagano and we took a jaunt to Ueno Park to see the ume blossoms, which herald the sakura.
Mar 17, 2008
Photos: 30
Seoul - Big Jump 2008
The sightseeing bit of the GEOS Big Jump tour to Seoul, South Korea. I forgot my camera, so all these photos are lifted (and copyrighted) from my friends and coworkers.
Mar 3, 2008
riverboat partymath
My buddy Sane invited me to a boy-meets-girl party on Tokyo Bay. I didn't realize it was themed as such until I got there. Whateverthecase, I made some new friends.
Feb 24, 2008
Post-NY in Nagano
Th'week after Th'White Album
Jan 12, 2008
The White Album
New Year's Eve in Nagano. 'Twere a blizzard, even.
Dec 31, 2007
Photos: 135
Shin-Matsudo Miscellany
Random photos from my year here.
Dec 12, 2007
Photos: 31
Nagano City
I concocted me a four-day weekend at the end of November (23-26) to hit the countryside (again). I went to (the city of) Nagano, which was both a lot smaller and a lot more naturey than I thought it'd be. Go me.
Nov 26, 2007
Nikko
My trip with Shannon to Nikko-shi (Sunlight City), Tochigi Prefecture. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999. Check out it's Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikk%C5%8D
Nov 3, 2007
Photos: 75
Kami-Suwa & Chino
After a few weeks in the Kanto region I decided I deserved to see a few mountains and maybe an entire forest. So I called Tina.
Sep 16, 2007
Photos: 51
New in Japan
A bunch of mundane slices of life from my first month. The reason for all the nature pictures in subsequent albums.
Aug 18, 2007
Photos: 15
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