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Japanese cola ingredients and flavors
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 27 October 2009
I'm really a cola freak and enjoy the fact that Japan comes out with some strange cola mixtures every once in awhile. Coca-Cola no calorie plus fiber, Pepsi Azuki - Red bean flavored, Coca-Cola no calorie plus catechin - Green Tea flavor, Pepsi White - Pepsi and Yogurt flavor
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Osu Kannon Temple and Shopping Mall – Spherical Pano
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 25 October 2009
The Osu Kannon Temple and shopping mall located in central Nagoya has a classic Japanese pagoda style Buddhist temple that is a popular tourist spot. Osu Kannon first was established in 1612 but the current temple is a replica built in the 1970’s. The price of goods at this huge outdoor type shopping mall isn’t the [...]
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Higashiyama Botanical Gardens – Spherical Panorama
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 14 October 2009
Higashiyama Botanical Gardens is located along side the Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya, Japan. Here I created a spherical panorama from the inside inside quicktime.
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Nagoya Festival 2009
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 6 October 2009
The Nagoya Festival is Nagoya’s largest annual autumn festival which took place this year on October 3 (Sat) & October 4 (Sun), 2009.
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Atsuta Jingu Shrine – spherical panorama
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 27 September 2009
Atsuta Jingu is one of the top places to see in Nagoya, Japan. It’s located in a huge park with many old trees and buildings. It’s said to house the famous sacred sword Kusanagi-no-tsurugi, one of the three sacred treasures that symbolize the Imperial throne. They also have nice museum with many old items [...]
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Nagoya Castle spherical panorama
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 24 September 2009
I’ve been practicing my spherical panoramas lately and thought it was a nice day for a Nagoya Castle shoot. I really like the way these look and so I started to make them of my favorite places. Just click the flash window below and move the mouse around in 360 degrees and mouse wheel to zoom in. [...]
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Himakajima island
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 14 September 2009
Himakajima is a small island off the Chita Peninsula, south of Nagoya city. The island is known for it’s fresh octopus and blowfish along with vacation hotels. It took us about 90 min to walk around the whole island. During our walk we ate fresh octopus, saw a live Taiko band, saw the locals fishing, [...]
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Nagoya Castle – September 2009
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 1 September 2009
Various recent photos outside Nagoya Castle and the Hommaru Palace construction. Lot’s of new buildings and activities happening all around the area. All taken with Sony a900 and SAL1635cz.
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Gundam 30th anniversary celebration – Nagoya “Gundam the First”
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 30 July 2009
Nagoya’s “Gundam the First” is the 30th year anniversary celebration on July 24th, 25th and 26th 2009 at Port Messe – Nagoya, Japan. They had a Gundam museum with original animation cells, a huge Zaku head, history displays, mobile suit battlefield recreation that everybody loved, and a stage where famous people related to the Gundam did [...]
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Morikoro Park – Fireworks and Fair
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 23 July 2009
Once a year on the 18th 19th of July Morikoro park has fireworks, a fair, a famous Jpop singer, hip-hop bands and tons of international food stalls. They also had many hands on crafting like Japanese fans, chopsticks, flying things and solar powered frogs/monkeys. Morikoro park was the site of the 2005 World Expo in Aichi-ken, [...]
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Honmaru Palace Restoration Project – Nagoya Castle
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 12 July 2009
This is the place where the Honmaru Palace was built in 1612 located at Nagoya Castle, Nagoya, Japan. It was later destroyed during WW2 Bombing May 14, 1945. The City of Nagoya is currently promoting the restoration of the Hommaru Palace and aims to open a section of the entrance to the palace for public [...]
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Jokoji Natural Resort Park
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 4 July 2009
Just 35 minutes by train from Nagoya via the JR Chuo line is Jokoji Park in Seto. It has camping, a famous temple called Jokoji built in 1236, Shoden Pond, and many hiking trails. It is an amazing forest park up in the mountains. Just take the JR Chuo line from Nagoya Station to [...]
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Tokoname, Japan walk – GPS tracks
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 4 July 2009
Here are the tracks from my GPS while walking along taking photos in Tokoname which is just outside Nagoya and right next to the airport. They do provide a map at the visitor station but it isn’t to scale. We did the A and B walk on the map. There is [...]
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Tokoname, Japan – Richard and Mieko Pottery
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 16 June 2009
Richard and Mieko have a pottery business in Tokoname called Olive Tree Pottery. The area around his place is such a nice area in Japan with many trees, hills, ocean, history and it’s quite. Richard showed us around and gave us some history on the area. By the way, Richard is offering pottery internships to people [...]
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Part 4 - Kirin Brewery Nagoya history
Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真 日本 - 10 June 2009
This brewery in Nagoya has been around since 1964 but Kirin in Japan was started by an American named William Copeland back in 1870. It was named “Spring Valley Brewery” in Yamate, Yokohama. Kirin name came about in 1888 and for awhile the labels were mostly in English.
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