Japan - Sendai

In Sendai I could stay at my friend Shunsuke's place. He was an exchange student in Finland last year. He was kind enough to let me stay although he seemed extremely busy. (I was sleeping in his home, but he was working at the lab.)

Also I tried the sendai speciality 牛タン cow tongue (aka. french kissing with a dead cow).
Shunsuke was kind enough to pay for my dinner too! orz

Thank you　東京来たらおごってやるね。


Taxi line in sendai. I bet you can get a taxi home even on a busy night. Like the finnish new year.

Super double toilet!

Close to Shunsuke place, big wtf.

Nice texture

Here is a slideshow of other pictures>

Japan - Hiraizumi

Hiraizumi is a temple area in Iwate-ken in Japan, south of Morioka.
Fujiwara family reigned here and at it's peak it was said to rival with Kyoto.
Lot of nice small temples on a foresty hill.

Hakusan Shrine - perhaps the first structure built in Hiraizumi some 1000 years ago or so

special appearance by happy orange drink.

Japan - Morioka

South of Aomori in northern Honshu there is Morioka, basically I just stayed the night here.

My hotel, outside view.



My Hotel Room with a TV

Aomori Station

View by the river close to my hotel

Japan - Ferry from Hakodate to Aomori

Hakodate is a souther harbor town in Hokkaido and Aomori is a Northern harbor town in Honshu.
I could've used a train because a tunnel connects the two islands, but I wanted to go trough the sea.

The Japanese seascape was very blueish. Everything around seems blue, when the blue sky and its reflection on the sea gets filtered up with the misty air.



The ferry

The one-legged seagull (pirate seagull)

Mt. Hakodate I was on top the previous day.

Reaching Aomori.

Hokkaido - Tooyako and Hakodate

Here's a picture slideshow from Tooyako and Hakodate.

Tooyako is a nice lake with a few mountains in the middle. There were fireworks there
Hakodate is a southern harbor town in Hokkaido.

Hokkaido was a nice place. I had a cheap train ticket and could only use local trains. Some of the trains I used were very minor and many stops basically had no stations. Just some funny boxes :)

Climate was much warmer than Finland especially in the southern part that I was in.
Forests looked like jungle to me...

Hokkaido - Noboribetsu

Noboribetsu is a Onsen, spa town south of Sapporo. Besides onsens there are a few attractions. And some nice nature


Jigokudani, "Hell Valley." Volcanic area that is smoking constantly for hundreds or thousands of years already

There was probably some story to this small puddle...

Boiling lake

Boiling lake from far

Detail of boiling lake

Japan - Sapporo

I took a trip in Japan from 9th of September to 19th of September. There's alot to cover so let me get to it:

I took a plane to Sapporo on the 9th of September, with a plan to come back to Tokyo on land and sea.

Let the pictures do the talking. Here's what my new Canon Powershot S5 is cabable of :)
Sapporo was a much bigger city than I thought, had a very nice and clean athmosphere in the central area.


Onitsuka Tiger - my favorite shoe brand :)

Nice park in the middle of Sapporo, forgot the name of course.

Girl doing bar-tender training in the park, Japanese seem to like to show of their skills by doing their hobbies in public places

View from behind ;)




And a few other pictures from Sapporo. (it's a flash slideshow so you wont see it if you are using an RSS feed reader)
The night pictures from high up are from Moiwa-yama, where i went on a ropeway.