37 degrees celsius

Taipei main station

One of my favorite photos from the taiwan trip.

gotta catch em all

Taipei main station

Huge mass of people in Taipei main station... we were wondering what they were there for until we noticed that every single person was on their phones and playing the same game: pokemon go. This should be illegal.

Temple at sunset

Jiufen, Taiwan

Light catching an a temple in Jiufen.

Family mart

Jiufen, Taiwan

A familymart near the entrance to the Jiufen shopping street. The sun was almost setting and everyone seemed to be about ready to go home.

Jiufen elementary school

Jiufen, Taiwan

People resting on the steps to an elementary school. There's almost nowhere to sit along the small shopping roads, so I don't blame them at all! To the left is a very interesting temple where you're meant to tour around 10 different altars and light up 10 incense sticks around the temple grounds.

Plants (for sale?)

Jiufen, Taiwan

On some back street.

Jiufen, Taiwan

Small stairs off to the right of the main path. A-mei teahouse is to the right. We went there and got some somewhat overpriced tea, but the scenery from our outdoor seating was really awesome.

View of Jiufen

Jiufen, Taiwan

Meat buns

Jiufen, Taiwan

Jiufen, Taiwan

Edge of a temple roof against the northern coast of taiwan. Taken near the Jiufen main bus stop. We took a day trip here from taipei... it's a kind of reconstructed look of old taiwan, with small streets and dense shopping.

Subway tracks

Shilin, Taipei

Just outside the main exit of Shilin station, where we stayed for 2 nights. The food and shopping at the night market nearby were really nice. I liked the vintage shops a lot.

National palace museum

Taipei

Very nice museum in the north of Taipei. I particularly enjoyed the Go exhibition they had while we were there.

Swimming pool!

Ximen, Taipei

Can't remember exactly where this is, but it's in front of a park of some sorts near ximen.

Ximen, Taipei

Main intersection in front of Ximen station. Early in the morning.

Taipei after the rain

Ximen, Taipei

Early in the morning after a rainy night.

東京中央卸売市場休憩所

城南島

Ground floor of the tokyo wholesale market. They've got a little rest area set up.

Tokyo market

城南島

Inside the tokyo central wholesale market. looking over the vegetable/fruits section. this upper walkway around the market is actually open to tourists, but if you enter through the back gate nobody seems to be interested in stopping you from walking wherever your want.

Prepare for landing!

城ヶ島

I like the person spreading their arms out in the center of the photo. The big red structure on the right lights up very brightly at night to show pilots where the runway is.

View from Jougashima

城ヶ島

Near the camping ground at the southern edge of shinagawa wharf

品川埠頭

Shinagawa wharf is right next to haneda airport, and planes are flying overhead all the time.

品川埠頭

I love riding my bike down this wide street and looking at the warehouses and factories... it's a look into the logistics that make the city run

貨物線

品川埠頭

品川埠頭

cycle ramp into shinagawa wharf

Tokyo tech in april #3

Tokyo tech, Ookayama

Ishikawadai campus, just south of my lab

Tokyo tech in april #2

Tokyo tech, Ookayama

Tokyo tech in april

Tokyo tech, Ookayama

My school campus when all the trees bloom

Kurushima kaikyou no. 1

Ooshima

The final bridge to cross on the cycling route. Truly spectacular scenery, especially on the 360 degree curving roads up and down the bridge.

pachinko no.1

Oomishima

West side of Oomishima, taken after visiting Ooyamazumi shrine and heading south to the coastline.

love is a flower of soul

Oomishima

Close to the airbnb we stayed at (WAKKA, really nice place)

En route

somewhere along the shimanami kaidou cycling route

My beloved bike!! I carried it on the shinkansen from tokyo to hiroshima -- so worth it. It's a 2008 lemond poprad rim brake CX-style bike that I bought second hand and upgraded several parts on.

hiroshima train

hiroshima station

From my hiroshima/onomichi-imabari shimanami kaido cycling trip with daniel & dicegang. they visited japan for seccon 2025, and did some tourism after. It was super fun!

Zen

Fukuoka

Fukuoka coastline

Nagahama, fukuoka

Industrial area near the Fukuoka coast. Google maps suggests that the building on the left is a wholesale fish market. We came here looking for a famous hakata ramen shop, ganso nagahamaya. The ramen was excellent and shockingly cheap, highly recommend!!

Tobacco and stamps

Fukuoka

Not sure why this scene caught my eye, it just vaguely reminded me of atlanta somehow.

東京総合車両センター

Ooimachi

I pass by this view every time I walk to and from the nearest train station, ooimachi. The yamanote line trains park here overnight.

Tsukuba, ibaraki

I visited the 2024 tsukuba university festival with an old friend who goes there. it was super fun! tsukuba is a highly planned city with some very nice parks, roads, interesting architecture. I took a lot of architecture photos when i was there, but I think this was the best one.

southern tip of satsuma

Southern tip of kaimon-dake, ibusuki

Towards the end of a really cool climb down a cliff to reach a fishing/view spot (pictured). The climb is made easier by some thick ropes set up to help you down, but it's still somewhat thrilling.

大願

Hirakiki shrine, ibusuki, kagoshima

An ema the 5 of us wrote together, hanging in the shrine.

satsuma no ichinomiya

hirakiki shrine, ibusuki

Hirakiki and Nitta shrines both claim to be the top ranked shrine in the Satsuma province, and while I can't really comment on Nitta, Hirakiki was very cool. The scenery with Kaimon-dake in the back was really nice.

soumen

ibusuki, kagoshima

Near the tousenkyou soumen nagashi spot. The food was unfortunately fairly mid in my opinion (so many bones in everything!), but the location and vibe is just spectacular. The fact that the restaurant is actually run by the city is also pretty peculiar. Here, a worker is preparing what seems to be bamboo tubes for the soumen to flow down (?).

kaimondake

ibusuki, kagoshima

Mt kaimon, on the very edge of the satsuma peninsula. I visited ibusuki with some friends I met while staying in hostels, one of whom had a rental car we all used to see ibusuki with high efficiency. Ibusuki ended up being one of my favorite days of the entire kyushu trip, it was so much fun car touring the countryside with an international group of friends

Ibusuki no tamatebako

ibusuki, kagoshima

aforementioned limited express train. The white/gold side faces the ocean, and the black side faces inland on the trip to ibusuki.

umizoi christmas train

kagoshima

scene from inside the "ibusuki no tamatebako" limited express train from kagoshimachuou to ibusuki station. Another spectacular route along the ocean with great views of the kagoshima bay. The train was christmas themed when I went.

hazy sakurajima

sengan-en, kagoshima

hazy outline of sakurajima in the bay as seen from sengan-en. The many views of sakurajima were some of my favorite moments of my time in kagoshima. the fact that a very active volcano is just sitting there in the middle of a huge population center and everyone's just gotten used to it is so crazy to me.

senganen

sengan-en, kagoshima

new roll of film after i realized i underexposed the previous gold 200 roll by one stop :sob:. It turned out ok, there were some really moody shots in the last roll.

road in kagoshima

kagoshima

grimy tenmonkan

tenmonkan, kagoshima

rainy day in tenmonkan. These buildings are behind the bus stop where the bus to sengan-en stops.

tenmonkan park

tenmonkan, kagoshima

early morning. I love tenmonkan! it's completely crazy yet feels so cozy at the same time. A completely different nightlife feel compared to say, Nakasu in fukuoka.

takamori station at sunset

takamori station with mt aso peaks in the background. the only reason I was still in takamori by sunset is because I forgot my camera in the station... the minamiaso railway trains only run once every 2hrs so that ended up costing me 4+ hours

kamishikimi

kamishikimikumanoza shrine

main entrance to the shrine

fall, piled up

kamishikimikumanoza shrine

Cool shrine featured in hotarubi no mori e. unsurprisingly very heavily visited. my friend and and I climbed all the way up the hill behind the shrine and through a gnarly hiking/climbing trail (right past the do-not-enter sign)

foggy caldera

mt aso

photo taken from the window of the minamiaso railway. easily one of the most scenic train routes I've ever taken. It starts in tateno station and takes you into the Mt. Aso caldera to Takamori station. the pictured mountains are the southern rim of the caldera.

kumamoto station

kumamoto

early morning while the 2024 december christmas market was setup

kumamoto shiden

kumamoto

the absolutely awful kumamoto streetcar. miserable timings and miserable riding experience... gets so intensely crowded I'd rather walk 30m.

fukuoka from the sea

fukuoka

fukuoka tower from the ferry from uminonakamichi to hakata. taken on my december 2024 kyushu trip with my georgia tech friend sidong.

married rocks

futamigaura, fukuoka

the married rocks and white torii near futamigaura. i have a bw photo of this as well, but I developed the color roll first.