Sendai Era 2015
Sendai Hair Flap
After a few months in Tokyo, we moved on to the second stage of our new Japan adventure, beautiful Sendai, the ‘City of Trees.’
B-Sides: Sendai Station at Night
Some shots from back in Sendai that I never got around to posting. Always a fun area brimming with activity, as it serves the local trains as well as the Shinkansen (bullet train) line which brings in people from all over the country. This one was technically taken in...
Sendai Flashback: Kameoka Hachimangu
Yet another batch of photos from an afternoon exploring Sendai. On the occasion of this afternoon, Mary and I visited the pleasant Kamekoa Hachimangu in the hills West of Sendai proper. Now you may recall that we've already vistied one Hachiman shrine here on the...
B-Sides: Streets of Sendai
When I make a post, there's usually some kind of general theme or timeframe that ends up grouping the images into some kind of coherent collection, but there's always orphans of that process. I'll invariably end up with a few odd shots here and there that don't...
Rinnou-Ji Temple
On one of Sendai's many hillsides, there's a very pleasant temple by the name of Rinno-ji. Mary and I wandered up there last autumn and loved the quiet stroll up the bamboo-lined steps as well as the gardens on the temple grounds. Straight off the bat, we were...
The Sun Sets in Sendai: Exploration Expedition 04
One of these days, I'll run out of Sendai photos. But today is not that day. :/
Exploring Sendai: Expedition 03
What a weird, busy week. Every day I thought it would be the day to get that "big" post I've been working on done and up, but every time the day had evaporated before I knew it. Where is all the time going? Anyway, I'll be damned if I'm not going to get up at least...
Exploring Sendai by Bike: Expedition 02
Another group of random images from another random bike ride last autumn. Most of these were taken in the Hachiman area of Sendai. Check out the design on this awesome crosswalk/traffic light! These were scattered around a couple neighborhoods in town and I loved...
I Miss Eating Marbo-Yakisoba
For the most part, every town in Japan has at least a couple quasi-official "signature foods" that they're famous for. Sometimes it's a genuine fame, such as Sendai's Gyuutan (beef tongue) or Kumamoto's Basashi (raw horse), either of which pretty much everyone I've...
Exploring Sendai by Bike: Expedition 01
The pile of photos from I've yet to post from Sendai is insane. It's not even a pile, it's a mountain, some going back as far as September, which is when the photos in today's post were taken. At some point while still living in Sendai, I had occasion, after running...
Sendai’s Dontosai Festival: It’s Not Arson, It’s Culture!
I suppose I should get around to wrapping up the remaining posts I’d intended to write while still in Sendai now that I’m back to a semi-regular posting schedule (knock on wood). While we’re certainly enjoying the living hell out of Osaka so far, I definitely miss the...
Sendai Snow
It finally snowed! I've been hearing about Sendai's cold winters and snow since we got here seven months ago but it only got properly cold in the last few weeks, and just this morning we finally woke up to some proper snowfall. Enjoy the view from our balcony and...
Tanabata Festival in Sendai
Almost every town in Japan has it's own festival of some sort. Most of them are quite local affairs and it would be unusual for someone more than a couple towns over to know much about them. A few of them, however, are famous nationwide and Sendai's Tanabata Festival...