Photo Stream

  • Walking toward the black dragon temple
  • Some living quarters near the Black Dragon Temple
  • Lunch @ the temple. Fermented soybeans, fishcakes, tofu skin, soups, etc, etc
  • Waitin for that temple lunch
  • The temple we ate at was beautiful and incredibly serene
  • Bout to have some temple lunch in the mountains
  • We spotted a Japanese goat antelope while driving through the mountains
  • Sake sippers
  • Sake samplin
  • Hiromi pouring us some tastes
  • Sampling some Yamanashi Sake
  • A shrine near Hiromi's house
  • Protector
  • Convenience store Onigiris!
  • Tryin out the Yukata
  • Kari reads me the menu
  • Bout to get dinner with Hiromi's family
  • Walking around and checking out the pretty views while waiting for dinner
  • Trying out Kari's bioness
  • Yamanashi is pretty
  • Fancy manhole
  • A small shrine
  • Driving around Hiromi's stomping grounds
  • The hip bone connected to ...
  • Hangin with Hiromi's friends
  • Sampling some fancy grapes
  • Grape guy
  • Picking some fancy grapes
  • Road side grape and peach stand in yamanshi
  • Peeling some big ol Japanese peaches
  • Look at this giant peach
  • Visiting one of Hiromi's college friends' grape farm
  • Some crazy flowers on the Suntory campus
  • Sausages and fishes @ Suntory
  • Whisky girls
  • Gettin some of that suntory sparkling water
  • Hiromi and kari
  • Tasting whiskys
  • Barrels on barrels
  • Barrels of whisky
  • Suntory stills
  • Suntory's wooden fermentation vessels