Tag Archives: East Asia

Travel & Culture Tours: ‘South Iwate, Japan’ (Video)

Iwate Prefecture may be known as a place devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, but it’s coming back better and stronger than ever.

Iwate is a large prefecture on the northeastern coast of Honshu, Japan’s main island. The southern city of Hiraizumi contains a rich architectural legacy from its period as a political center in the 11th and 12th centuries, including Chūson-ji Temple and the adjacent Mōtsū-ji Temple. Northeast, the city of Tōno was the birthplace of many folk tales, now recounted in traditional surrounds at its Old Tales Village. 

Food & Travel: The Top ‘Street Food’ In New Taipei City, Taiwan (Video)

Taiwanese Street Food – 台灣街頭美食 / Night Market, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Taiwan probably has the best night market scene in the world and some of the most exciting street food in Asia. With little space at home to cook, the Taiwanese prefer to head out almost every night to the heaving markets for the cheap snacks – or xiaochi – that are found across the island – on corners, in clusters of food-devoted streets or at one of over 100 night markets. Those with no language skills simply stand in front of the stall, point to what they want and use their digits to say how many. Stallholders then write the price down, with dishes generally costing between 60p and £1.20. (From The Guardian)

New Taipei City is a special municipality and the most populous city in Taiwan. Located in northern Taiwan, the city includes a substantial stretch of the island’s northern coastline and surrounds the Taipei Basin, making it the second largest special municipality by area, behind Kaohsiung.

Travel Guides: ‘Sapporo – Japan’ (Expedia Video)

Sapporo – From ski slopes to beer gardens, this dynamic destination is one of the best in Japan.

Sapporo, capital of the mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, is famous for its beer, skiing and annual Sapporo Snow Festival featuring enormous ice sculptures. The Sapporo Beer Museum traces the city’s brewing history and has tastings and a beer garden. Ski hills and jumps from the 1972 Winter Olympics are scattered within the city limits, and Niseko, a renowned ski resort, is nearby.

Travel: ‘Shanghai – China’ In Ultra HD (Video)

Shanghai, on China’s central coast, is the country’s biggest city and a global financial hub. Its heart is the Bund, a famed waterfront promenade lined with colonial-era buildings. Across the Huangpu River rises the Pudong district’s futuristic skyline, including 632m Shanghai Tower and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, with distinctive pink spheres. Sprawling Yu Garden has traditional pavilions, towers and ponds. 

Aerial Travel: ‘Hong Kong’

Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. 

Walking Tours: ‘Historic Town Of Mitarai’, Japan

Mitarai is a port town on Osaki-Shimojima (Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture) in the Seto Inland Sea. This area was selected as an Important Preservation District for Traditional Buildings in 1994.

Video timeline: 00:00 タイトル(title) 00:14 高速船(High-speed boat) 00:46 御手洗の町並み(Townscape of Mitarai) 01:27 天満宮(Tenmangu shrine) 01:59 菅公の井戸(Well of Kanko) 02:11 お宮のトンネル(Shrine tunnel) 02:24 御手洗の町並み(Townscape of Mitarai) 02:52 若胡子屋跡(Wakaebisuya Historic Place) 03:04 御手洗の町並み(Townscape of Mitarai) 04:40 常磐町とおり(Tokiwamachi Street) 07:02 御手洗の町並み(Townscape of Mitarai) 08:15 松浦時計店(Matsuura Watch Shop) 08:36 御手洗昭和館(Mitarai Showa Museum) 08:53 御手洗の町並み(Townscape of Mitarai) 09:12 乙女座跡(Otomeza Theater) 09:21 御手洗の町並み(Townscape of Mitarai) 10:19 おいらん公園(Oiran Park) 11:36 歴史の見える丘公園(The Rekishi-no-Mieru-Oka Park) 11:55 大東寺(Daitoji-temple) 12:40 御手洗の町並み(Townscape of Mitarai) 13:09 足長小学生?(Long-legged elementary school student) 13:12 満舟寺(Mansyuji-temple) 14:14 御手洗の町並み(Townscape of Mitarai) 15:23 恵美須神社(Ebisu Shrine) 15:42 御手洗の町並み(Townscape of Mitarai) 16:13 住吉神社(Sumiyoshi Shrine) 17:13 千砂子波止(Chisago Wharf)

Autumn In Japan: ‘Eikando Temple, Kyoto’ (Video)

Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji is the head temple for the Seizan branch of Japan’s Jōdo-shū Buddhist sect, located in Kyoto, Sakyō-ku. It was founded by Shinshō, a pupil of Kūkai, and is famous for its fall foliage and for its prominence in the past as a center of learning.

Timelapse Travel: ‘Nippon 12k’ – Discovering Japan

This is a timelapse film that depicts various parts of Japan in 12K (11520×6480 resolution). In order to achieve 12K resolution, we used various shooting methods, new workflows, and a lot of trial and error, and it took a long time to produce the film.

But even more than that, the COVID-19 made timelapse photography extremely difficult. 8K is the highest resolution, but the so-called “oversampling effect” made I feel that 12K images can be expressed in higher resolution. Although 12K is not yet an official standard, we will continue to work on further visualization as a new visual expression.

Culture: Merchant Town Of Omi-Hachiman, Japan

Sail through the network of canals winding their way through Omi-hachiman, a once bustling castle town overlooking Lake Biwa. Retrace the steps of the past surrounded by a unique amalgamation of European and feudal Japanese architecture combined with carefully-preserved historic townscapes.