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Dining in Japan – Part 1

Posted on 30 Dec 2022   by CY

We haven’t put up detailed posts on our dining experiences over our Japan 2022 trip, on account that while we enjoy good food, blogging about culinary experiences is beyond us! The most we can probably say is whether the food

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Posted in Traveling    Tagged Kansai/Japan 2022   

Post-Processing

Posted on 29 Dec 202229 Dec 2022   by CY

Unlike the 2019 trip, the 2022 trip this time round saw a couple of days – especially in the first week of our trip – where we experienced late autumn colors, which in turn made for great opportunities in post-processing

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Posted in Photography & Cameras, Traveling    Tagged Canon G7X II, Kansai/Japan 2022, Samyang 35mm f2.8, Sony A7 III, Sony FE 24-105mm f4.0   

Equipment Comments

Posted on 29 Dec 202229 Dec 2022   by CY

Every trip I make, I’d do a post-trip post commenting on the image capture experience of that trip. It’s mostly done in order to have a detailed record of what happened in the trip so that I can make more

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Posted in Photography & Cameras, Traveling    Tagged Canon G7X II, DJI Osmo Pocket, Kansai/Japan 2022, Sony A7 III, Sony FE 24-105mm f4.0   

Flora in Japan

Posted on 28 Dec 202228 Dec 2022   by CY

The wife – being the lover of plants and horticulture hobbyist – was constantly observing the interesting plants, trees and shrubbery in winter everywhere we went, and frequently stopping to take pictures using her Samsung Note S9 of things she

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Itinerary Retrospection – Part 2

Posted on 27 Dec 202227 Dec 2022   by CY

Continuing from the last post that presented a summary of our itinerary and covering Days 01 to 07 of our 15 day trip to Japan in December 2022: here is Part 2 that covers Days 08 to 15. A key

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Itinerary Retrospection – Part 1

Posted on 26 Dec 202231 Dec 2022   by CY

Itinerary-wise, we drew several lessons from our 2019 trip to Tokyo and Hokkaido. For example, we made sure that our places of stay, as far as possible, would be close to the train stations. We gave ourselves buffer time to

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Day 15 @ Nagoya – Nagoya and Returning Home

Posted on 25 Dec 202226 Dec 2022   by CY

Our flight home was departing from Chubu Centrair International Airport at 10:20AM today on Christmas. And over the last few days, we received the usual email reminders from Singapore Air nudging us to do online pre-departure check-in. We dutifully did

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The Royal Park Canvas Nagoya

Posted on 24 Dec 202226 Dec 2022   by CY

The fourth and last property we stayed at this 15 day trip, and in Nagoya. This was probably the hardest region to find accommodation, on account that by the time we’d firmed up our region of travel and dates, many

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Day 14 @ Nagoya – Nagoya City Science Museum

Posted on 24 Dec 202226 Dec 2022   by CY

Our second stop for our last full day this trip: the Nagoya City Science Museum, which boasts the world’s largest Planetarium. Like many of the science museums we’ve been to already, this one in Nagoya features large areas of exhibits

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Day 14 @ Nagoya – Yanagibashi Central Market

Posted on 24 Dec 202225 Dec 2022   by CY

Day 14: we woke up this morning 6:15AM to see this weather in Nagoya: The weather was around 2 degree C, and we decided not to go with the originally planned itinerary for visiting Gujo Hachiman. This was in consideration

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Day 13 @ Nagoya – Port Of Nagoya Public Aquarium

Posted on 23 Dec 202226 Dec 2022   by CY

Our next stop in Nagoya: the Port Of Nagoya Public Aquarium. The Toyota Commemorative Museum was just a few stops north of Nagoya Station and pretty easy to get to. The Aquarium was much further to the south, so required

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Day 13 @ Nagoya – Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology

Posted on 23 Dec 202226 Dec 2022   by CY

The last segment of our trip was centered around the city of Nagoya, one of the larger cities in Japan and also a gateway for international flights coming into Japan. We selected Nagoya airport in September as the arrival and

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