Friday Postcards: Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan

Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by Steph in Photos

Today I have two beautiful pictures for you, contributed by the brilliant former guest poster and frequent commenter Aelle.  In her own words:

They were both shot in the summer of 2006. One, in a very steep street of Ichgaya, a residential neigborhood in central Tokyo. The other, in Kyoto’s Nanzenji temple, at dawn, after a sleepless ride in a night bus. Imagine for the former, the hot humidity of Asian summers, the noise – trains, crickets, street tofu cart blowing their horn and calling out for clients – the first salary men leaving work, the sleeves of their white shirts rolled up, and going to relax around a glass of beer or shôchu and a plate of edamame with their colleagues. Imagine for the latter, a very quiet morning, except for chanting monks, the last cool hours of the day before sun rises for good, and a retired man going for his morning prayer – like his son and grandson probably will when they stop working or studying such crazy hours.

If you like Aelle’s prose and photography be sure to check out her neat bilingual blog Des Mots Pour Se Taire.

(Do you have a photo you’d like to see featured here? Email me at Steph@twenty-somethingtravel.com)

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