here's some pictures from my last year's trip to Japan. Pardon the quality - it was all taken with a 10 y.o. Pentax compact zzzoom. here goes..
Here was the hypocentre of atomic bomb explosion - 600 metres above this building.
Castle in Hiroshima. It is situated 1 km from the atomic explosion hypocentre. It was burned then and later restored.
Chinese garden in Hiroshima
Buddist temple in Nara. It contains the biggest Buddah statue in the world inside.
Tombstone in the yard of Shiinto Shrine in Fukuoka
A small restoran in Hiroshima
Temple of Golden Pavillion in Kyoto. Ever read 'The Temple of Golden Pavillion' by Yukio Mishima?
And some more pictures - of people who were my kind hosts (I was visiting a collaborating lab at the University of Osaka).
