Showing posts with label Friday Shoot-Outs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friday Shoot-Outs. Show all posts

Friday, June 5, 2009

Friday Shoot Out- RANDOM

Friday Shoot Out- RANDOM

I "randomly" picked my own theme for my own blog this shootout.....vending machines.

In Japan, the vending machines are known as (jidō-hanbaiki) from jidō, or "automatic"; hanbai, or "vending"; and ki, or "machine", (jihanki) for short.

Japan has the highest vending machine per capita with about one machine per 23 people (according to wikipedia).

Here are some vending machines that I had the chance to take photos while I was driving, walking and shopping :-)



Hello Kitty toy vending machine



Pokemon toy vending machine



Toys Vending Machine



Cup of Noodles Vending Machine



Cigarette Vending Machine


Hot and Cold Tea, Cocoa and Coffee Vending Machine


Hot snack food vending machine (french fries, yaki soba, tako yaki, rice bowl)


Bowl of sushi rice vending machine ticket


Soda vending machine

Ice Cream Vending Machine





You can see vending machines outside the store



Outside golf shop


Yo can see them even along the parking lot




Vending machine even along the street beside the gas tank and trash bin :-) close to rice field LOL


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Friday, May 29, 2009

Friday Shootout- WATER

Friday Shootout is WATER.

Once again here's the brief overview of Misawa:

The City of Misawa is located near the northeast tip of the Japanese main island of Honshu in Aomori Prefecture. It is a town with a population of about 44,000, in which the Pacific Ocean lies to its east, picturesque Lake Ogawara to the west.



That means we have plenty of water too! Browse and enjoy my photos.



Rice fields filled with water in front of our house, after sunset


Another shot


Rice fields, the farmers are starting to plant the rice (by machine)


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Last Monday, Memorial holiday in US [yes, we had our holiday too even we're in Japan, we are still Americans anyway who happened to live in Japan hehehe], we got a lot of oysters from a river that I forgot the name :-) .....[again hehehe]. I need to ask my friend what's the name of this river and we need to come back here to get more oysters.


A man was fishing


Oysters in the bottom of water





A rock full of oysters and the background of course is water....where we got this rock :-)


A bucket filled with oysters and of course we put some cold "water"


part of the river, shallow one


My son looking for some clams, the water was very cold


My son and his friend looking for clams and crabs




A drive-by shot after digging some oysters from this river

Some boats as I spotted while we're driving back home from the river

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Misawa Beach - part of Lake Ogawara which is located on base. I just had my blog about Misawa beach and some some of the photos are here again.


swing

Misawa beach during afternoon

walking along the beach


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Domo Arigato! Thank you very much!

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Friday Shootouts: Paint The Town RED

Once again, I'm joining the gang for the Friday Shootouts- "Paint the Town Red" picked by Gordon from Florida.

Let me walk you through my photos to see how red Misawa, Japan is.......enjoy.


Red small car with red sign board


Red Airplane Display at Misawa Aviation and Science Museum



Red storage house in the middle of the Misawa Aviation and Science Museum open field



Homac sign- Home Amenity Center, it's like a home depot in the US



These are not match box nor hot wheels trucks, these are real trucks



Shinto Shrine Gate or "Torii" in Japanese


Red octopus (tako) barbecue



Firetrucks




Coca Cola vending machine outside Shin Ryu ramen house




Hair salon


Ice Cream stand




Yokomachi grocery store


Red tractor


Red trees, I have no idea what's the name of these trees

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Friday Shootout- Transportation

I'm joining again Patty (from Crisfield, Maryland) and Reggie Girl's (from Newnan, Georgia) Friday Shootout...... "transportation" (aside from your private vehicles) which was picked by Science Girl. The list of the other bloggers who joined this shootout can be found in GingerV and Butler and Bagman's blogs and others, I can't remember who else has it :-)

Misawa's modes of transportation around the neighboring towns and cities (aside from privately own vehicles) are bike, taxi, bus and train. I don't know if I have to include the airplane but I don't have photos of it. So maybe just go to Japan Airlines website and you'll see the different planes they have hahaha :-)

Some photos were taken in Tokyo, Sendai and Misawa as I wasn't able to take good photos around my town this week :-) anyways they do share the common transportation so I hope it should be ok :-)

This photo was taken in downtown Tokyo, bicycles were parked on the designated bike parking lot, I noticed all their bikes have basket in front :-)



Students in Misawa were biking on their way home


Taxis- this was taken in Sendai (5 hour drive from Misawa)



Taxi in Misawa- this is how the back of taxi looks like :-)



Train, taken in a subway train station in Tokyo last February- we also have train here in Misawa a lot of people especially teenagers are taking the train going to Hachinohe the closest city in Misawa, I haven't tried taking the train here yet. They have basic and express tickets.


JR Line train



Inside the train in Tokyo- I noticed that most people were wearing black suits and shoes :-)


Public bus, the "cat bus" in Misawa, this was posted from the previous shootout, "streets around your town"

Tour bus- this was the bus we took going to Sendai, bus tour package is $50 round trip, sometimes people are taking the tour bus to travel outside Misawa



Inside the bus



Another bus here in Misawa



Shinkansen or bullet train taken in Tokyo. Misawa has no bullet train, but if you want to go to Tokyo, you have to take the regular train going to Hachinohe; it takes you 15 minutes and from Hachinohe to Tokyo will be about 3 1/2 hour by bullet train. Driving by car is about 8 to 10 hours depending on how fast you drive :-)

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Bonus:


Disney train- if you want to go to Tokyo DisneySea or Tokyo Disney Land you have to take their Disney train from the main entrance as you get off from the Maihama JR train station and you have to pay 250 yen each way otherwise you have to walk half day just to get there :-) (LOL joke)