Between 2007-04-15 and 04-15 we visited Japan on a tour sponsored by UCLA Alumni Travel and organized by Alumni Holidays International. We were accompanied by our Japanese guide Masa-Aki Tanno, the AHI tour director Philip Ryan, Susan Kim of UCLA Alumni Travel, and Prof. Mariko Tamanoi of the UCLA Anthropology Department. We had a great time (despite a storm system that visited Japan at the same time). We first visited Tokyo, including Nikko in the mountains to the north; then the Izu Peninsula; and finally Kyoto and neighboring Nara. Although the cherry trees started blooming early this year (and probably in the future due to global warming), there are several kinds and we saw many of the later blooming cherry trees. Gastronomically it was also quite an experience, though mostly not rendered visually. Come with us on this virtual tour.
These pictures were taken using a Minolta Stylus 400 digital camera, 2272x1704 pixels, JPEG compression. Photos were retrieved using the intrinsic USB mass storage capability via the Linux generic USB storage driver. Editing was with GIMP v2.2.10. Copyright © 2007 by James F. Carter. Feel free to download any of the images for personal use; just give me a photo credit. Contact me for unedited images at 2048x1536 pixels (JPEG), specifying the filename shown by your browser. <jimc@math.ucla.edu>
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