Urbanscape Photography in Japan
Click on image to order a print.
Port City Waterfront, Yokohama
Nautical Training Ship (Nippon Maru), Yokohama
Minatomirai Waterfront District Skyline, Yokohama
Miyako Bridge Restaurant Quarter, Yokohama
Yamashita Park and Hikawa Maru Ship, Yokohama
Noge Tabemono Yokocho District, Yokohama
Minatomirai Waterfront District Skyline, Yokohama
Cruise Ship (Asuka II) and Terminal Pier, Yokohama
Yokohama Bay Bridge, Yokohama
Replica Statue, Odaiba, Tokyo
Rainbow Bridge, Tokyo
Suspension Bridge, Tokyo
Solid Ribbed Arch Bridge, Tokyo
A cluster of modern office buildings in Tokyo, Japan, featuring sleek glass facades, geometric architectural patterns, and reflective surfaces. The mix of contemporary high-rises and traditional design elements highlights the dynamic urban landscape of the city's business district. Sunlight casts subtle reflections on the windows, enhancing the interplay of light and shadow in this dense metropolitan setting.
At Japan’s Imperial Palace in Tokyo, the historic Fujimi-Yagura guard tower stands gracefully atop its stone wall, framed by lush greenery. In contrast, modern high-rise office towers rise in the background against a crisp blue winter sky.
View of Seimon-Ishibashi Bridge and the moat surrounding the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, with the high-rise office towers of the Marunouchi financial district in the background. Thousands of visitors gather to enter the palace grounds for the New Year's greeting, where the Emperor, Empress, and other imperial family members appear on the palace veranda.
Two shots of a resort where guests on the upper floors have panoramic views of the Port of Yokohama. The hotel has the appearance of three structures, but is actually two hotels in one.
Long exposure of the NYK Hikawa Maru--a retired ocean liner that is permanently berthed at Yamashita Park in the Port of Yokohama serving as a floating museum. Boarding the ship will take you back to her heyday between 1930 and 1960 where she sailed between Seattle and Yokohama with cargo and passengers including members of the Japanese imperial family, Charlie Chaplin, and Babe Ruth. At the start of WWII, she aided Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany. After the war, she was one of handful ships that survived the war and was converted into a cargo ship until 1953. She sailed as a cruise liner until she was decommissioned in 1960.
The Yokohama Bay Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge with a 860-meter/2,820-foot span that crosses Tokyo Bay allowing traffic to skip traffic congestion on the bayshore route for quicker access to Tokyo. Completed in September 1989, the bridge was high enough to accommodate one of the world’s largest ships at that time—the Queen Elizabeth 2. Twenty years later, mega cruise ships are too tall to pass under the bridge and have to dock farther away from the central piers of Yokohama.
Tokyo Skytree, located about 3.6 km (2.2 mi) from where this shot was taken, is the tallest structure in Japan standing at 634 meters (2,080 ft) and serves as a broadcast and observation tower.