Honeymoon Pictures from Japan

[dathon]

Last August, my wife and I got married (yay!) then went on a three-week honeymoon in Japan. It was an incredible trip. Well, almost a year later, I've finally got all the pictures up

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7290526@N02/

It's best to look at them in sets, which can be found down the left-hand side of the page. The sets are in chronological order of where we went. There are a LOT of pictures, so be warned!

Also, all of the information in the comments is from memory, literature we brought back from Japan, and a little web research to fill in the gaps, so if something is wrong, that's why.

Enjoy!
dathon

[sunrise089]

I looked around at a few of them - pretty cool stuff. The deer sure seem friendly. It looks like it was a very pleasent place to spend a honeymoon, and you certainly seemed to have been able to experience a lot of the county. Best wishes in your continuing lives together.

PS - Ohio State sucks ->Posted from Gainesville

Off topic: I'd like to post a nice rant about their little list of potential US Nuclear actions, but I suppose the Japanese publication history of The Rape of Nanking can speak for itself.

[scooter]

One Flickr thing that's kinda handy you might be interested in checking out is the custom URL feature. Basically instead of getting flickr.com/photos/7290526@N02/ in your case, you would get something like flickr.com/photos/dathon, or whatever it is you wanted. You only get to choose your URL once, so you can't change it, but it does make things easier, you can find out how to here:

http://www.flickr.com/help/account/

It's about halfway down the page.

[Sylva Firewind]

Wanted to give some explainations to some of your pic where you stated you didn't know what it was but looked neat but too lazy myself to create a flickr account. I lived in Japan for 13 years. One of your pics was at a temple in Tokyo area and had a bunch of drum looking things with kanji written on them. They are filled with sake (rice wine) and are offerings by private entities and companies to the gods the temple represents. mmmm think of all that alcohol in one place :P oh wait, honeymoon memories...congrats

[dathon]

@sunrise - The deer were sometimes a little TOO friendly Thanks for the kind words; it really was a great trip. Now about that OSU thing - both my parents went there, so I'm kind of a Buckeye's fan by default. That said, I don't follow them closely. But don't knock my Buck!

@scooter - Thanks for the tip, I'll try that out at some point.

@sylvia - Thanks for the info! I'll update the comment. Seens like it would be an interesting place to live - what were your impressions?

dathon

[Sciros]

Awesome photos, and great comments! Very informative ^_^

I'm going to be visiting Japan myself in 2 months; really looking forward to it.

Oh, and OSU rules! Go Bucks! :-D

[dathon]

Do you know any of the language? I found that surprisingly few people could speak or even understand English, despite it being compulsory in school. Some could read it, but few could write it.

I took some Japanese in high school/college, and while being FAR from fluent, I could communicate enough to get us around.

Where are you going in the country?

dathon

[Sciros]

I know just enough to get around, yeah ^3^

Well, I'm visiting a friend in Nagoya. But I have 2 whole weeks there, so I'm hoping to spend a couple of days in Tokyo, a few in Kyoto, maybe a couple in Nara, Osaka as well... heh I think I need to figure out a more conservative list. But yeah Kyoto and Nara are my top priorities, followed by Tokyo and Osaka. There's also Arashiyama...

And I was thinking of visiting an onsen, but that might be a bit out of the way... and what if they're like "OMG NOT JAPANESE!" and don't let me in and I'll be all like "HOLY PENIS ENVY BATMAN" and it becomes a big international incident.

[dathon]

And I was thinking of visiting an onsen, but that might be a bit out of the way... and what if they're like "OMG NOT JAPANESE!" and don't let me in and I'll be all like "HOLY PENIS ENVY BATMAN" and it becomes a big international incident.

Public baths are definitely a cool experience, you should try one. Even if it's not an onsen (hot spring) but just a regular one. My experience is that the locals largely ignored me (at least as far as I could see).

Nagoya was one of the few places we didn't go in that region. Nara Koen is DEFINITELY worth at least a half day. The deer are cute, and the Daibutsuden was truly a sight to behold.

In Kyoto, Kinkaku-ji is is beautiful, especially on a sunny day. I also really enjoyed Nijo-jo.

I don't want to be too presumptuous, but I can also recommend some restaurants in Kyoto, if you're interested.

dathon

[Sciros]

Public baths are definitely a cool experience, you should try one. Even if it's not an onsen (hot spring) but just a regular one. My experience is that the locals largely ignored me (at least as far as I could see).

Nagoya was one of the few places we didn't go in that region. Nara Koen is DEFINITELY worth at least a half day. The deer are cute, and the Daibutsuden was truly a sight to behold.

In Kyoto, Kinkaku-ji is is beautiful, especially on a sunny day. I also really enjoyed Nijo-jo.

I don't want to be too presumptuous, but I can also recommend some restaurants in Kyoto, if you're interested.

dathon

Yeah I'm going to try to visit an onsen.. just depends on how out-of-the-way that ends up being.. spending a night in a ryokan while I'm at it would be neat but we'll see.

Yup I will definitely visit Ginkakuji, Kinkakuji, and Kyomizudera while in Kyoto... hopefully Nijoujou and Arashiyama as well... probably a few other places if I can find the time. I plan on spending 3 days or so in the Kyoto area, maybe 2-3 days in Tokyo, maybe 2 days in Nara, ... well, how many days would you recommend to see most of the important places?

And yes, feel free to recommend some restaurants you've visited... I'm sure Naoshi will have some of his own ideas but maybe he can give me feedback or perhaps he's not been in certain areas himself so it would be useful info.