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The Kamo river (kamogawa) runs through Kyoto, historically providing an important water supply, but also now allowing people to relax and enjoy nature whilst...
Yokohama is an amazing place with a mixture of foreign blended history from the French and English settlements over 150 years ago that shaped the harbor area...
Ishiyama Temple (石山寺) in Shiga Prefecture, said to have been constructed around 762, is the place where Murasaki Shikibu began writing The Tale of Genji, a...
I finished putting together another book on Canon’s PhotoPresso site. This one is from a trip to Hiroshima. You can see other books in the shibuya246...
There are 2 sets of gardens at Ryoanji Temple, the dry rock garden and the wet gardens. There are fifteen rocks in the dry garden raked with white gravel...
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Nice pics!
I got the same peaceful feeling, futuristic setting.
The Children’s Peace Monument, erected 1958, in memory of Sadako Sasaki who died aged 12 from leukemia contracted when she was exposed to the bomb’s radiation at age 2.
This building, a former kimono store erected 1929, was one of the few to survive the bomb blast. It now serves as the park’s “Rest House” (visitor center).
nice