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Pulling Out From Kyoto Station
view from a south-bound bullet train — 71 kph

As I mentioned yesterday, with a typhoon expected to reach the main island of Japan on Monday, we make a quick Saturday/Sunday trip south to Hiroshima and Miyajima. The approaching typhoon made for an interesting sky, with a very high cloud ceiling, in different patterns.

Photos of the sky from the train window are pretty bland, but perhaps of interest to someone who has never been to Japan.

この間の土曜日、京都から宮島までの空景色。写真はつまらないですが、日本に来られてない方には面白いかも。

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24mm — ¹/200 sec, f/8, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Rice and River
an extremely typical view — Akashi City — 273 kph (170 mph)

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24mm — ¹/320 sec, f/8, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Clouds in Himeji
295 kph (183 mph)

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Cruising Speed
300 kph (186 mph)

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Wrong
300kph, not 312 kph

In the split second after we came out of a tunnel, the GPS unit was confused about the speed. It quickly returned to 300kph.

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24mm — ¹/60 sec, f/16, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Rural Kurashiki, Okayama

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24mm — ¹/100 sec, f/16, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Pulling Into Fukuyama Station
269 kph
when I see a super-high cloud ceiling like this, I get excited for the sunset possabilities

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Pulling Into Hiroshima Station
yes, that's a Costco next to the baseball stadium — 103 kph

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Outside Hiroshima Station
weird art thing shows the spotty clouds — 0 kph

After a lunch (that will eventually be its own blog post), we took a streetcar for 15 minutes...

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Former Downtown Hiroshima
now a park

Then a taxi ride another 20 minutes south, and then...

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24mm — ¹/320 sec, f/10, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
View from the Ferry
on the 10-minute ride between the mainland and Miyajima
a less-dramatic view than I posted seven years ago

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View from Our Hotel
Kinsuikan Hotel in Miyajima (宮島の錦水館)

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Kids Playing at Low Tide
in a few hours, the water will be four times their height

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Walkable (Sort Of)
Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社)

One's got to be careful where one walks, because if there's vegetation, you can't tell at a glance whether it's just over hard-packed dirt, or over a mushy layer of water. In this case, a kid answered the question for me:

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 62mm — ¹/125 sec, f/11, ISO 1600 — map & image data — nearby photos

A few minutes before sunset, color started appearing to the west..

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First Colors

As I posted yesterday, it eventually got pretty nice.

Two days later, the typhoon is almost here.

Posts about the trip to Miyajima are continued here...