{"id":1297,"date":"2009-08-25T00:51:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T15:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-08-25\/1297"},"modified":"2009-08-25T00:51:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T15:51:27","slug":"final-approach-into-tokyo-narita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-08-25\/1297","title":{"rendered":"Final Approach into Tokyo Narita"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1297'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"018560\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_018560.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_018560_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"On Tokyo Final Approach Shadow on Rice Fields -- Flight from Osaka Itami to Tokyo Narita -- Inashiki, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl\"\nid=\"i018560\"\ntitle=\"On Tokyo Final Approach Shadow on Rice Fields -- Flight from Osaka Itami to Tokyo Narita -- Inashiki, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>2000 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 200 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_018560.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_018560.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>On Tokyo Final Approach<\/span>\n<br\/>Shadow on Rice Fields\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Winding down to the last week of <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2009-07-28\/1268\" class='quiet'>visiting my\nfolks in Ohio<\/a>, <span class='nobr'>I'm starting<\/span> to think about the long flight back to\nKyoto.<\/p>\n\n<p>On the way over, we flew out of Osaka via Tokyo and Chicago. Flying into\nTokyo's Narita International is likely <span class='nobr'>a surprise<\/span> to anyone who hasn't done\nit before... Tokyo is the world's most populous urban area, so one might envision\nskyscrapers and concrete, but flying into Tokyo is all about rice fields.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"018561\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_018561.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_018561_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Canal, Homesteads, and Rice Fields -- Flight from Osaka Itami to Tokyo Narita -- Inashiki, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl\"\nid=\"i018561\"\ntitle=\"Canal, Homesteads, and Rice Fields -- Flight from Osaka Itami to Tokyo Narita -- Inashiki, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>2500 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 200 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_018561.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_018561.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Canal, Homesteads, and Rice Fields<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"018556\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_018556.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_018556_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Lotsa' Golf -- Flight from Osaka Itami to Tokyo Narita -- Inashiki, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl\"\nid=\"i018556\"\ntitle=\"Lotsa' Golf -- Flight from Osaka Itami to Tokyo Narita -- Inashiki, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>1250 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 200 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_018556.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_018556.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Lotsa' Golf<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The approach into Narita doesn't exhibit the concrete jungle of Tokyo\nbecause it's about <span class='nobr'>a thousand<\/span> miles outside of Tokyo (well, 35 miles).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winding down to the last week of visiting my folks in Ohio, I'm starting to think about the long flight back to Kyoto.<\/p> <p>On the way over, we flew out of Osaka via Tokyo and Chicago. Flying into Tokyo's Narita International is likely a surprise to anyone who hasn't done it before... Tokyo is the world's most populous urban area, so one might envision skyscrapers and concrete, but flying into Tokyo is all about rice fields.<\/p> <p>The approach into Narita doesn't exhibit the concrete jungle of Tokyo because it's about a thousand miles outside of Tokyo (well, 35 miles).<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}