Postcards from Japan

Girl who bought a digital camera and is going to be okay

I made my first real big-girl purchase on my recent trip to Japan — a camera. It’s not as big as a house or a car, but it allows you to hold the world as it is for a moment and then peer back into that moment over and over again, and in better quality than whatever my iPhone 11 Pro allows me to capture. My camera is, in Japanese fashion, efficient, high quality and completely in Japanese. Thankfully, for the moment the two of us — me and camera — are completely psychic and in sync. (Translation: I haven’t been brave enough to wake the dragon and figure out what everything means; I know how to switch it on and off and click “capture”.)

Kyoto

My favourite part of our trip was our day trip to Kyoto. If I were to do the trip again I would probably have spent a day or two longer.

my favourite temple, Otagi Nenbutsu-ji Temple, in Kyoto. I was so drawn to these statues that were meant to be disciples of Buddha, all carved by a different person

Kyoto's greenery

My beautiful sister while we waited for a bus

Roads that led to this lovely sushi place run by a very kind and sweet old man

Some more nature & water

Teahouse <3

We also got (pretty good) fortunes at one of the temples we visited, and we’ve been riding that high ever since.

Osaka

Rainy day at Shinsekai

Food & coffee (our attempts at hiding from the frigid drizzle)

We also went to the very famous Dotonburi many times but for some reason I have no pictures besides these two.

Some well-deserved udon for starving tourists

Our dear friend Riko's enigmatic cats

Prisha and Riko in cab and with takoyaki

Nights

Roads and Trains

I enjoy the very physical activity of simply travelling (I have mixed feelings about road trips, however, thanks to motion sickness) and therefore I have these photographs of just being in transit.

If you’ve made it this far, thank you for scrolling/apologies for it being so long. To more such vivid and beautiful experiences in the next round of “postcards”.