Japanography: Unazuki Onsen Train
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A final #DayAndNight #Photo from the last #Day in #UnazukiOnsen, #Japan 2019. The wonderful slightly-kitsch of moulded concrete. Again, that gentle dilapidation thing I love. How long has this railing been enduring the freezing / baking cycles of a #Japanese ski resort town?

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Reversing the camera for a #Photo down the cascade at #UnazukiOnsen, which ends in the #Kurobe river. The red bridge structures, cobble-lining, the moss, the ageing #Modernist hotels - It's all here (in 2019).

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Another #Photo, & the last #Day in #UnazukiOnsen, #Japan in 2019. Only a morning remaining to look around for #DayAndNight #Photography. I think this cascade is a #CherryBlossom arcade, and can only imagine how amazing it looks in full bloom, with the deep red industrial train tracks in the background, contrasting against the green of the moss and ye-olde cobblestone canal lining. I can’t get over how calming I find the benign neglect, and gentle dilapidation of the #Japanese countryside.

The #Night roaming continues in #UnazukiOnsen, #Japan 2019. This #DayAndNight #Photo catching the wonderful way #Japanese culture embraced technology, at a bulky analog stage. So you have burger chains featuring contactless *cash* payment, with coin slots in the counter. All this technological infrastructure sprouts with organic, chaotic order - if you read or watch Otomo's #Akira, you’ll see it in the mutation Tetsuo undergoes with his prosthetic limb.

It's such a #Photography paradise.

A #Night #DayAndNight #Photo from #UnazukiOnsen, #Japan in 2019. I wonder what it would feel like to see one of these images if this was my house, realising that someone had been using it for #Photography while I was asleep inside.

Then again, if it was MY house, it would mean I lived in Unazuki Onsen, which would be awesome.

#Japanese #Urbanism - freestanding houses with front doors opening directly to the street is something you don't see a lot in Australia.

Steam hanging like an apparition over the geothermal hot water fountain in the main square outside the station at #UnazukiOnsen after returning from #KurobeGorge. A fun #Night #Photo experiment for #DayAndNight 2019 #Photography in #Japan.
Still #Day in this #DayAndNight 2019 #Photo from #KurobeGorge, #UnazukiOnsen, #Japan but closer to my wheelhouse of geometry and dark. There's several of these tunnels to walk through, after leaving the #KurobeGorgeTrolleyTrain. This one provided the best #Photography options. As always, I’m in awe of #Japanese civil engineering.
Because why wouldn't you build your hydro-electric infrastructure to resemble European mediaeval fortresses? Another #Day #Photo from #Japan 2019 #DayAndNight #Photography, again from the #KurobeGorgeTrolleyTrain at #KurobeGorge, #UnazukiOnsen. #Japanese architectural tastes are so much fun, and this town has strong Swiss Chalet style in places, presumably for the skiers. The haze, and shallow depth of field feel a bit like an old film photo.
The next #Day and next #Photo in #DayAndNight #Photography 2019, is from the #KurobeGorgeTrolleyTrain at #UnazukiOnsen. The brilliant turquoise water, I think is from the sediment of the white rock from which the area is composed. #KurobeGorge is #Japan's deepest valley, and has this wonderful little train, used for the construction of the hydroelectric project, but now a #Japanese tourist attraction. The season is just starting to turn to Autumn, as you can see in the colour of the trees.