Japan Trip

In April 2024 we travelled to Japan for my brother-in-law's wedding. It was a phenomenal trip, I wish I had more time to take photos but equally it was incredible to see my daughter (aged 3 at the time) embrace a different country and culture.

Japan April 3, 2024

Man in a dark suit with umbrella walking past pink-and-white-lit crane machines at a Japanese arcade entrance on a rainy evening

I was rushing back to Shinjuku station, it was raining but the neon lights shone out from this arcade just as a man in a suit was about to walk past.

Two people sharing an umbrella crossing a wet zebra crossing in the rain, shot from above with blurred cherry blossoms in the foreground

Still on my rushed journey back to Shinjuku station I looked down from the road I was on to see two people crossing framed by a cherry tree in blossom.

Silver Shinkansen bullet train at a covered platform, conductor leaning out of the side window beneath hanging signal lights

We took a bullet train to the mountains to the north of Tokyo, what a great way to travel.

Person crossing stepping stones over a shallow river beneath a canopy of pale pink cherry blossoms in full bloom on an overcast spring day

On our final day in Japan we went in search of cherry blossom and we weren't disappointed. This was taken in Yokohama at the Sukura Bridge.

Green steel bridge with red railings spanning a calm canal reflecting overhanging cherry blossom branches, low-rise apartments beyond

Further on down the river Ooka in Yokohama.

Cyclist crossing a narrow residential street in Yokohama lined with power lines and utility poles, white Japanese stop markings painted large in the foreground

A quiet residential street in Yokohama, compressed with a telephoto lens. The cyclist crossing at just the right moment, the tangle of power lines overhead, the stop markings painted on the road — Japan has a way of making the ordinary feel cinematic.