Togane exploring

So we went biking around in Togane to see if there was anything else to explore, and wouldn´t you know, we stumbled across two shrines and a graveyard!

1st shrine was found on top of a hill in the woods

Japanese graveyard. Looked different from the western tombstones I´m used to

Looks like a nice place to rest

I´m not sure, but I think these might be family graves. What do you think?

What´s this?

Oh yeah, we found a really cool tree, and it was begging to be climbed!

Neat little lake in the background. Or maybe not a lake, but water at least

This is a high school I think. Yet again, awesome trees

Looking for Yoshimitsu from the Tekken PlayStation games

Make a wish and put it up here

Maybe it´ll be granted

This spider close to the shrine was really big, don´t know if this picture can properly display its size

The 2nd shrine had a guardian dragon

The 3rd shrine was kind of small. Actually, that might not be a shrine

"Typhoon"

Typhoon Melor hit Japan yesterday! Damages were massive; supposedly a lot of trucks and even a train tipped over. Here in Togane however it wasn´t really that bad. School got cancelled though, but actually it was sunny and really hot outside, just a lot of wind. In lack of anything else to do I took pics of some fallen bikes some sword posing.

"New victory temple"

So last Saturday the international students went to the Narita-san temple, a Shingon Buddhist temple in Narita, Chiba. Awesome site, awesome temple! It was raining cats and hounds, but the constructions were too cool to let anything else ruin the experience. It was actually founded in the year 940, quite a while ago!

I managed to take a few pictures before my camera batteries perished

That´s just the gate, not the main temple.

Not a balloon I think

Blocking the view of the impressive old construction.

Then my camera died, so go here to read and see more pictures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narita-san

Finally two random pictures from our new hometown

Train info. Click to view more details

Cool helmets