Japan

I think this is downtown Tokyo. It almost looks like an isometric view because of the angle that the photo was taken at. You often can't tell the height of buildings when looking at them on Maps but this view…

This is Hachiko Square, the famous "busy pedestrians" road junction in Tokyo where everyone is waiting patiently to cross the road and then surging over. On Google Maps it is the cross roads with the wide white stripes going around…

Here is a great shot of Miyakejima Satsuma-Iwojima Island off the coast of Japan. It is volcanic in origin and the big volcano is Mount Oyama. This has erupted several times in recent history. A lava flow in 1940 killed…

Completing the set of Disney Parks is the Tokyo Disney Resort. The resort is split into two main sections, Tokyo Disneyland Park, with the usual magic mountain, etc. and Tokyo DisneySea Park which is based around various themed 'ports'. One…

Apparently one of the biggest theme parks in Japan is Toshimaen. The north part of the park has various roller-coasters, one of which is emblazoned with (what I'm told is) the park's name. The south part is a water park…

Updated The Kawasaki Man-Made Island is in the middle of an undersea tunnel between Kisarazu City and Kawasaki City across the Tokyo bay. Apparently they started boring the tunnel from the island towards each side. Thanks: Daryl, Callum, Benet, Alex,…