Even at the unsuspecting train museum, everything is anime girls. It's Waifus aaaaaall the way down. 電車博物館でも、いつもアニメガールがある。必ず。永遠。

Bungo Mori Roundhouse Museum 豊後森機関庫ミュージアム

Bungo Mori Roundhouse 旧豊後森機関庫

Kokonoe Yume Otsuribashi, where apparently crop circles and a UFO were sighted ミステリーサークルとユーフォー目撃されたらしい九重“夢”大吊橋

Kongoho Temple 金剛宝寺

Got stuck on the way to Oita in one of the coldest snaps in years but there are worse places to be trapped.

A series of cold animals 寒い動物

Coal trains at Manda Mine 万田坑の石炭列車

Massive Machines at Manda MIne 万田坑の巨大な機械

The amazing remains of Manda Mine 万田坑の見事な遺構

Manda Coal Museum 万田炭鉱館

Mechanical colossi of Omuta's Mines 大牟田の炭鉱の機械的な不思議

Mining and Machines at the Omuta Coal Museum 大牟田石炭産業科学館の採掘と機械

Several students and a teacher excitedly told me "Shane Sensei! Shane Sensei! You were on TV last night!". I appear for a whole second and a half in last night's broadcast about the Kumamoto Arm Wrestling tournament

Messing around with a camera and a cat

Birds around Lake Ezu....again 江津湖の鳥達

Pennies with five monarchs from Victoria to Elizabeth II and various designs from around the Empir-, I mean, "Commonwealth

Historical Japanese coins, from a time where 1 sen, 1/100th of a yen, was a useful denomination in "Greater Japan" 一銭でも役に立った時代の日本の歴史と現在の硬貨

Sculptures, Statues, and Pottery at the Kyushu National History Museum 九州国立博物館の像、彫刻や陶器

The World according to 18th century Japanese, Portuguese, and Dutch Sailors 十八世紀の日本、葡萄牙、阿蘭陀の船乗り達の世界