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  1. 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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  2. Wagunohama

    Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真　日本 - 18 October 2009

    I did a fishing trip with about 10 friends in Wagunohama and beach south of Nagoya in Mie prefecture, Japan.  We must of caught fish off the pier every 2 minutes from 6am to 10am.  It’s a great fishing spot and beach just located about 2 hours south of Nagoya by car. Official websites [...]

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Hikone Castle

    Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真　日本 - 29 September 2009

    Hikone Castle has to be one of my favorites castles I’ve visited in Japan. It’s certainly one of the most popular castles to the Japanese people, a 2 hour line to see the inside proved that. It sits above the town of Hikone overlooking the largest lake in Japan called Lake Biwa.  A museum with [...]

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Bokka-no-Sato – Farming theme park

    Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真　日本 - 5 July 2009

    Bokka-no-Sato is a farming, flowers, and crafts type park located high up the mountains in 2756-2 Washimi, Takasu-cho, Gujo city TEL 0575-73-2888 website www.bokka.co.jp. Great for children as there are many things to do like make wooden music boxes, ride horses, games, flowers, and feeding animals. During winter time the area turns [...]

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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. Tokoname, Japan – Maneki Neko

    Blog: Nagoya Photography - Japan Photos 名古屋 写真　日本 - 15 June 2009

    Tokoname is located just outside Nagoya and one stop away by train from the Centrair International Airport. Like Seto , Tokoname is an old pottery town with the Maneki neko ceramics everywhere.  This photo of one was just sitting in someones yard. Pottery shops are everywhere even in peoples homes. You can pick up [...]

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