Couldn't find a chance to shoot a shinkansen during this trip. However, I managed to take something that's close enough. Transport in Japan is really expensive, extremely with train prices rival that of air travel. I am bewildered by that really. In China, train is a transport supposed for those who find air travel too expensive. In Japan, the only option for those who don't have the economic ability seems to be to work where you live. I guess that's good to some degree, less pollution and stuff. Yet, I find that saddening too, that financial status limits even your ability to move. Then again, that is just the facts of life.
Train trip, met more kind people today. Seeing how our seats are very much separated, he offered to exchange seats with Kok Hon. Maybe we were simply too noisy and obnoxious, ha! The train was surprisingly silent, so are the people inside. Eventually, we were either deep in thought or deep in slumber.
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| I find the alignment in this picture really bad... |
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| This one too somehow, what was I thinking? |
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| Tram, another peculiar transport. Each ride has a fix price of a few Singapore dollars and every time you change train, you must buy another ticket. Well, unless you change at major interchanges where the driver will give you a transfer ticket. Hm... Weird mode of operation. |
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| "I love ramen!" Ken shouted in Jap. We were a complete bother to the students of the first female school in Japan. Oh, they are behind the windows opposite of us... |
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| Remember, never make funny faces in front of my camera. |
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| The lade to the left of the tram, wearing blue shirt and brown high heels. How she manages to walk... baffles me... |
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| 2 points of interest in this picture. See them yet? |
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| Liquified castella cake... Literally tastes like it... Awesome sauce! |
Castella cake is all over this town. You see, Nagasaki is the first place in Japan that got hold of modern oven from the Europeans. Slowly, it evolved to be famous for its sponge cake, the castella cake. It honestly doesn't taste any different from normal sponge cake. People just like it for some reason. They even built a shrine (of course, this is just a commercial tool, not real shrine) for the cake...
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| A nuclear peace centre full of beautiful photographs, nice people and a really big gate. |
While I feel really sad for the innocents who die, I felt that the Japanese are being hypocritical. They are one of the countries that started the war. They murdered and tortured countless people. Yet none of that is mentioned. This monument is both self-centred and self-righteous. It is not wrong to promote peace, but first, apologize for the atrocity you've committed in the same war.
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| Nuclear peace park with many monuments from different countries, to the Japanese, Chinese and Korean who died there. |
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| Decent ramen, but a bit too similar to Singapore's. |
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| A plane cross the frame. Ha! |
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| Ghosting! |
