I'm Going To Japan

Tu_triky wrote:I was in awe of the gorgeous cherry blossom trees at Ueno Koen in Tokyo. Here's a short video I took that illustrates the point. A shower of petals is a sight to behold. The video below doesn't do it justice of course.

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I walked through Ueno park as well, but the trees hadn't blossomed yet. Still a gorgeous place, though.

Btw, do you take pics on the largest pixel size? If so, what is the quickest way to down-size for a viewable size on the net? I have 1000 pics I'm going through and it's a pain to decrease the pixel size in Photoshop for EACH photo at a time.

Does photobucket take care of that for you, or do you normally take smaller sized photos?

Wynter wrote:

I walked through Ueno park as well, but the trees hadn't blossomed yet. Still a gorgeous place, though.

Btw, do you take pics on the largest pixel size? If so, what is the quickest way to down-size for a viewable size on the net? I have 1000 pics I'm going through and it's a pain to decrease the pixel size in Photoshop for EACH photo at a time.

Does photobucket take care of that for you, or do you normally take smaller sized photos?

Photobucket should do the trick automatically.

Wynter wrote:Does photobucket take care of that for you, or do you normally take smaller sized photos?

Not sure if Photobucket does, but I know Imageshack does.

Okay cool! I have a photobucket account... I just need to remember the login info. Lol

Wynter wrote:Okay cool! I have a photobucket account... I just need to remember the login info. Lol

:hehe: Been there.

Just found out why in Japan they call plastic bottles "PET bottles", it's short for "Polyethylene terephthalate".

Learn something new everyday. :)

gaijinmark wrote:it's short for "Polyethylene terephthalate".

I guess that's easier to pronounce than "Plastic Bottle." :beaten:

...Purastiku Botteru...?

^ :mrgreen: nice one but my guess it has to do with recycling. PET means indeed polyethylene terephthalate, but to the average person it probably just means recycle bottle. Packaging with the PET logo (a green triangle) has to be separated from other garbage.

EstherM wrote:^ :mrgreen: nice one but my guess it has to do with recycling. PET means indeed polyethylene terephthalate, but to the average person it probably just means recycle bottle. Packaging with the PET logo (a green triangle) has to be separated from other garbage.

Actually PET bottles are the new toy in Japan. They are the latest trend - you raise the bottle like a pet much like people used to buy Tamagotchi's from Kiddy Land on Cat Street.

Tu_triky wrote:Actually PET bottles are the new toy in Japan. They are the latest trend - you raise the bottle like a pet much like people used to buy Tamagotchi's from Kiddy Land on Cat Street.

LOL. :rofl:

I've got a box full of those PETs... A goldmine! :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:
LOL. :rofl:

I've got a box full of those PETs... A goldmine! :mrgreen:

You, Sir, are a wealthy man. :D

great photos of Japan! Tu_triky, Wynter

it brings back some memories of some past visits to the land of the rising sun!

Sengo wrote:

Beautiful!! What was the temperature while you were there?

Sorry I missed this question you posted a while back. The temperature while I was there was mostly 60s and low 70s. It wasn't that cold although it did rain a few times during my trip.

I was there from April 11 to April 24.

Tu_triky wrote:

Sorry I missed this question you posted a while back. The temperature while I was there was mostly 60s and low 70s. It wasn't that cold although it did rain a few times during my trip.

I was there from April 11 to April 24.

No problem but thanks for responding! :D You really hit it just right to see the cherry blossoms. We saw the fall leaves which were beautiful. We're ready to go back again but would like to get around to the more obscure places on our own. We'll never go in Aug/Sep.....did that way back when, it was miserable.

Sengo wrote:

No problem but thanks for responding! :D You really hit it just right to see the cherry blossoms. We saw the fall leaves which were beautiful. We're ready to go back again but would like to get around to the more obscure places on our own. We'll never go in Aug/Sep.....did that way back when, it was miserable.

No problem. :) Yeah I got really lucky that I was able to see the blossoms in full bloom from Tokyo all the way to Osaka because the trees bloom at different times throughout the country.

Yeah I know summers are miserable in Japan because of the heat. I've only ever gone there twice in October and then this most recent visit in April.

I think once I'd like to go during the winter time. December maybe January or early February one time.

I want to visit Hokkaido at some point.

Tu_triky wrote:Yeah I know summe's are miserable in Japan because of the heat.

That's the best time of the year. :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:
That's the best time of the year. :mrgreen:

I know you enjoy the warm weather but the problem with Japan's summers is the accompanying humidity. It is supposed to be pretty brutal. Remember, too, you will be walking everywhere so you won't have the comfort of getting around in an air conditioned vehicle. Granted the train cars have A/C but it's all the other walking around you'll be doing to and from the train and walking the streets that will most likely make you wilt.

That's why our weather here in LA is so great...it rarely gets humid even when it's really hot, but then you know that. :)

View of Osaka from my hotel room at the St. Regis Hotel in Honmachi.

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Most important museum in Japan. The Instant Ramen Museum in Osaka.

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Did they have a video of instant noodles inside the digestive tract? :beaten:

http://www.wcvb.com/health/Inside-stomach-Ramen-Noodle-digestion-goes-viral/-/9848730/13471402/-/item/0/-/h3bpmez/-/index.html