Living in Japan days off are a valuable thing. And long weekends, even if they are only three days long, are a perfect opportunity to go on vacation.
This time my buddy E and I went to Kyushu to enjoy some days of photography, food and haikyo. Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Sasebo. Not everything went according to plan, we had to cut down the haikyo locations from four to three, but in the end the trip turned out to be great. Great food, great locations, great comradeship.
This posting is accompanied by photos that are not necessarily haikyo related – the haikyo locations deserve three postings of their own, so please keep coming back for more. One of them will be about the Shime Coal Mine, one about the Katashima Training School and the last one… well… it will be about Gunkanjima, the most awesome ruin complex in Japan.
Abandoned Kansai 
The 3 hawks picture is surprisingly deep. 3 Hawks, 3 shadows, 3 guys at the background, 3 street-blocking rocks… Awesome.
Love the Hawk pictures! There were 3 of them around!? That’s incredible. I usually only see 1 at a time, and even then at a huge distance.
Love the picture with the pigeons! The Hawk comes swooping down, and they are all scattering like – Oh sh**!
There were actually eight to ten – they had to take turns picking up the fries. It was an awesome experience to get so close to them!
Sounds like a great vacation 🙂 I love the shot of the single flower, I think it would make a great desktop wallpaper. Simple and beautiful.
The flower was actually one of the careless “I just give it a try on my way to another thing I really want to take a picture of” shots – one of those positive surprises when going through all the pictures after the trip. Maybe I’ll add a wallpaper page one day with some of the pictures in full resolution.
Kyushu is actually a great place to travel to – lots of interesting places to see and lots of delicious food to try. I really want to go there again as I know at least three more locations I want to explore but had no time for.
Some lovely photos there! Did you land on Gunkanjima? Meaning to go there myself at some point 🙂
Thanks a lot – I was really pleasantly surprised by how good most of the pictures turned out to be…
Yeah, we landed on Gunkanjima with the official tour, but it’s still a tricky business – they cancelled the trip we had tickets for although it was a sunny day with barely any wind in the Nagasaki harbor. (Don’t know about the waters around the island though…) We continued our vacation but went back the next day and I guess we were very, very lucky that they sold us tickets although they sent us away at first. More about that and other things in the soon to come posting about Gunkanjima – I’ll put something else up on the weekend and then I’ll start a 3 part series about the Kyushu trip.
Gunkanjima looks just a bit similar to Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz was a prison.