Picturesque Japan

Hi Travelers, this is Kumi. I'm now planning to publish a Kindle book on Tokyo photo locations. In this book, a traveler/photographer, Cat, asks questions to a guide/photographer, Kumi.   C: Cat - traveler/photographer K: Kumi - guide/photographer * * * * * * * * * C: So, you like Roppongi Hills the best, right? K: Yes. Its distance to Tokyo Tower is perfect. I was thrilled to take this photo. C: I bet. Oh, I see Tokyo Skytree in the distance! K: If you give up Tokyo Skytree, you could place Tokyo Tower on the left and capture the car lights like this. C: Oh, I like this one, too! How's the shooting condition? K: Before talking about the shooting condition, let me give you the basic information about Roppongi Hills. There are two different observation decks.  TOKYO CITY VIEW  and  Sky Deck .   K: TOKYO CITY VIEW  is an indoor area. It's 1,800 yen to go up there. K:  Sky Deck  is the rooftop deck around the helipor...

Hello, travelers. This is  Kumi . I guided a Canon Australia's Japan tour for two weeks. Let me show you how we enjoyed the tour. This is about Day 3 in Tokyo. On this day, they enjoyed Tokyo freely during the day and we gathered for the night-view shooting. Our first stop was Roppongi Hills TOKYO CITY VIEW  opened in 2003. https://tcv.roppongihills.com/en/index.html We went up to the Sky Deck. If you want to know how to get there and what it's like, please check out my article. https://pict-japan.blogspot.com/2018/11/sky-deck-at-roppongi-hills.html You need to leave your bags in the lockers and all you can bring is your phone and camera. No tripods are allowed. However, you could somehow find spots to place your camera for long exposure. This was when I truly fell in love with the Canon camera, GX 5. I had been using a different camera, but the tour leader brought me the camera for this tour. I had been struggling with the settings for the first two days, ...