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Chiba Japan

Apr12
2010

Written by Randy Corman

I’m posting one last group of photos from our trip to Japan (which ended 12 day ago). This group of photos features a suspended monorail, which whisks commuters and tourists around Chiba Japan in suspended coaches four stories above city streets.

All the pictures below that look like aerial shots are taken from this monorail. For those familiar with Disneyland, this monorail reminded me of the Peter Pan ride.

We also met up with a very good friend of our family, a former exchange student whose older sister was also an exchange student…our family’s first exchange student in 2001. Both sisters made it to Seattle again for our daughter Katie’s wedding four years ago. If you are in the right situation, I strongly recommend you consider hosting an exchange student sometime in your life. You can learn so much, and the friendships you gain are life-long. I still keep in touch with a friend in Sweden who lived with my birth family for a year when I was a kid.

View through front window of suspended monorail (the drivers hand can be seen on the left)

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Typical aerial view of the city from the suspended monorail

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2 Comments

cathy_corman

April 14, 2010 at 3:37 am | Permalink

It’s so beautiful. Sorry that I missed it.
0davesnothere

April 15, 2010 at 12:29 am | Permalink

It is hard to believe how many of those great pictures you would miss or not take if you still had to use film.

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