Nagoya, Yokahama, Shimizu...

Mainly a Shinkansen travel day today... wanted to see Yokahama so went there first and wandered around the port area then got another Shinkansen back down to Shizuoka and a local train to Shimizu and the coast.

The architecture in Nagoya was pretty cool with a twisty corkscrew kind of a skyscraper and other large towers clustered around the train station. The urban cityscapes of japan can also be beautiful in thier own way, especially when all lit up at night. Visited Nagoya Castle which is a reconstruction slightly older than Osaka - rebuild in the late 50's through early 70's - and all the better for it. Age and patina create the atmosphere in these places and anything to shiny and new just doesnt feel right. There is a brand new reconstruction of the Palace right next to the Castle and it just feels wierd with its shiny new wood.

Arrived in Shimizu quite late so not much to photograph but more on Shimizu in my next post...Read more