This is the last of my photos from last year's trip to Japan, a dizzying night-time perspective taken with my ultra-wide fisheye lens. ...

Our World Tuesday

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The  Hakone Komagatake Ropeway (箱根駒ヶ岳ロープウェー) climbs from Lake Ashi to  Mount Komagatake. It opened in 1963, and the top station looks li...

After visiting Mount Fuji, our tour took us to Lake Ashi . The setting was gorgeous and there were some interesting ships on the lake. ...

At the fifth station where the road ended we found the Fujisan Komitake Shrine. As you'd expect it was beautiful and well-kept. Th...

The one package trip we did in Japan was to Mount Fuji  and the nearby Lake Ashi, as these aren't easy to get to without driving. At ...

For Our World Tuesday , here are a few random Tokyo street scenes.

Here are a few shots of Meiji Shrine  (明治神宮) on a very rainy afternoon last summer. I can't believe I'm still posting photos from th...

Here's a Skywatch Friday photo of a very rainy sky at Meiji Shrine . And here's a screen shot of the forecast from yesterday -...

After visiting the Skytree we headed over to the Meiji Shrine (明治神宮). This shinto shrine is dedicated to Emperor Meiji, who lived from 1...

After visiting the  Sensō-ji shrine, we walked across a bridge to the Tokyo Skytree  (東京スカイツリ). This 2,080-foot (634-meter) high structur...

Skywatch Friday

The landscaping in  Sensō-ji (金龍山浅草寺) in Tokyo is exquisite. And the famous five-story pagoda is incredible. Our World Tuesd...