Author: ageekinjapan

The Great Seto Bridge

The Great Seto Bridge connects the main island of Japan, called Honshu, with the fourth biggest island in the archipielago, called Shikoku. Being a little bit over 13 km long, it is the longest two-tiered bridge in the world, a record that belonged during many years to the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco.

The Great Seto Bridge illuminating the horizon. I took this picture from a nearby island.

Great Seto Bridge
This great picture was taken by Chris Willson at 5:00 a.m from the Honshu side of the bridge right where it begins.

Tokyo Videos

Summer in Tokyo

I love this video arranged and with original music by Joan Jiménez showing images from last summer in Tokyo.

Reality is the contrast between what we have inside and what exists outside. I invite you to a shared trip to Tokyo where I put eyes and music and you all put the sensations…

Switch off the lights and make it full screen:

I have been living in Tokyo for more than 5 years now, and I still love it like the first time!

Traditional

Yukatas in Edogawa

The other day in the Hanabi in Edogawa I had the chance to take quite a few pictures of people wearing yukatas. This light traditional garment can be usually seen in summer, usually in traditional festivals (Matsuri). Apart from being used in summer matsuris, yukatas are also usually worn when going out of the bath in traditional hotels (Ryokan) and at home. In fact yukata in Japanese means literally “bath clothes” (浴衣: bath,clothes)

yukata edogawa matsuri