Recent content by hodsgod

Nice photos of Yokohama. I used to live quite close to Minato Mirai, in fact I could see the wheel and Landmark tower from my apartment window. I also went in the big wheel in 1989 at the Yokohama exitoc showcase.

More from Kamakura

Various images around Kamakura.

The first photo is from a plane a few weeks ago, second is the sunrise from the summit of Mt Fuji in 2007, the others are to show what Mt Fuji looks like up close. These were taken on the way down.

The first two photographs are from inside the peace park museum, first a shadow on some steps, caused by a human protecting the bleaching effect of the initial explosion. A wall damaged by flying glass. finally outside a peace bell with a golden crane built in, behind are the areas where the...

I reposted, I have no idea what was wrong, they were definitely ok when I loaded tham.

A statue of Sadako, and the cranes that are still being folded today. There is a belief in Japan that if you fold one thousand origami cranes, any wish will be granted. There was a young girl named Sadako Sasaki, she lived about 1 mile from the centre of the explosion. As she became older she...

Here is another photo of the Skyline today, with that anomaly in the sky. I would like to be able to say, that forever there is something in the sky. However all i can say on that day there was a small gap in the clouds.

A watch stopped at the time of the bomb detonation, one year after buildings were starting to reappear, and the city as it is today.

These photographs are of the monument to the dead in Hiroshimas bombing. It is formed by an arch in the foreground, and eternal flame in the middle ground and the dome in the background. The names of all the dead are inscribed in a book under the dome, and if I remember correctly the book is...

Some photos showing the dome before the bomb, and what the area looked like after the bomb.

I am posting some photos of a trip to Hiroshima I made almost two years ago. I would recommend if you go to Japan to visit this memorial, i have rarely been as moved in my life as being in this place. As requested some different angles of the A Bomb Dome, this building was about 200 yards...

This is my house, it is directly on a lake. It has a traditional tea room as well as the main house.

I started working for a Japanese company in 1987 (Nissan) I spent about 12 months in Japan in 8 years. I went there for a holiday in 2000. I then went back to work permanently for three years in 04. I met a young lady and we married. we left in 07, and went back in 2012. I now live in an area...

It was just a test post, to see I knew how to upload in the correct manner.