Outside the World's Largest Buddha Statue

This statue here is a Guinness Book of Records record holder, as the largest statue of Buddha in the world, standing at 120 metres. Which is 3 times the size of the statue of liberty.

It seems I can only put 5 pictures per post, so here's the Buddha from the outside.

The sign reads "Ushiku Daibutsu", Ushiku being the place, and daibutsu being a Buddha statue.

The view from the front, with a replica bust.

The entrance gate.

Koi fish from the pond out front.

Freezing Beach in Chiba

Went out to Chiba on the east coast of Japan ... It was the end of December, so I didn't swim or anything, so there's not much more to say, but here's some pictures from my phone.

Sunrise over Tokyo Bay.

More Dated Festivities ~

This is from the Waseda school festival. A lot more famous, and just generally bigger than the one posted below. Happened around the same time.

Apparently a lot of celebrities attend, but since I'm not up to date on my Japanese celebrities, I'm not sure whether I actually saw any...

The Model U.N. protecting member nations from giant octopodes for generations.

Rokurokubi (ろくろくび）or Long-Necked Woman, some kind of Japanese monster. Not quite sure where the terror is.

All of a sudden I felt a slightly unnerved...

This guy maybe?

Some deep-fried icecream, with strawberry sauce and chocolate sprinkling. You are jealous. This is a fact.

It's been a while...

These were taken at Toyo's school festival, which I'm pretty sure was sometime before Hallowe'en...

There were a shit load of food stalls, this particular one is takoyaki

There were also a shitload of people, but I think I'd gotten over the population density at that stage.

Obviously being in Japan there's going to be a Pikachu wandering around.

The Elmo came as more of a surprise.

And of course an obsequious monkey.

Obligatory Engrish Post

I figured I'd throw in some ridiculous French as well.

SD what I did there?

I finally got a microSD for my phone so I can upload the random variety of pictures I've been taking. Unfortunately while fiddling with the settings to make my phone save to the SD automatically, I noticed I've had the picture quality on the lowest setting... So everything thus far will be tiny...

I Excel at Camera Forgetfulness

I haven't been doing much but go to college lately, but when I have done/seen things I haven't had my camera on me... So here's some pictures from my balcony to keep this post colourful!