August 28th, 2008
Location: Kappabashi or Kitchen Town
Destination: Tokyo
Country: Japan
Year Taken: 2008
Photographer: Shane Sakata
Blog: The Tokyo Traveler
Kappabashi (translation Kitchen Town), is a shopping area devoted to cooking and restaurant supplies in Tokyo. Learn more about this fun shopping area from a frequent photo contributor and Tokyo expert, Shane, who writes the The Tokyo Traveler.
The market began with just a handful of kitchen utensil stores that opened during the early Taisho era (1912-1926). Today the long street is lined on either side with vendors selling kitchen utensils, beautiful dishes, lacquer bowls, bento boxes, knives and anything else that the home or professional chef might desire.
So if you ever need some of those silly plastic fake food items seen on display outside of some Japanese restaurants, you know where to find them.
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August 27th, 2008
The summer vacation season is almost over, so hopefully you had a chance to take a great vacation to some exciting or exotic destination.
or perhaps you stayed home and simply relaxed and did some fun local activities.
And we’d love see how you spent your summer vacation!!!
Share a photo or two and I’ll publish the best on Travel Photo Daily.
To submit your destination or travel photo for consideration, please visit the Travel Photo Daily Flickr Group and send a few photos.
Can’t wait to see what everyone submits.
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August 26th, 2008
Location: In an alley off Caldara Road in Oia
Destination: Santorini
Country: Greece
Year Taken: 2000
Photographer: Jon Rochetti
Blog: The DC Traveler
This old Honda (a C-100, I believe) motorcycle was spotted parked against a wall outside my hotel. You could tell it was a daily commuter and dated back to the late 1960s.
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August 25th, 2008
Did you capture that one amazing image on your last vacation?
If so, enter the United Airlines Hemisphere Magazine 16th annual Travel Photo Contest.
The top prize is a 5-day Hawaiian vacation. Second prize is 100,000 miles on United’s frequents flyer program.
The submission process is simple, just visit the online registration page, and attach up to three photos.
Submission deadline is September 15, 2008, so act fast.
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August 24th, 2008
Location: Down a long industrial driveway
Destination: Falls Church, Virginia
Country: United States
Year Taken: 2008
Photographer: Jon Rochetti
Blog: The DC Traveler
With a sign older than dirt and a sheet metal cowboy greeting customers in front, Dixie Sheet Metal looks like it’s from a bygone era.
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August 23rd, 2008
Location: The Amphitheater
Destination: Pompeii
Country: Italy
Year Taken: 2000
Photographer: Jon Rochetti
Blog: The DC Traveler
The Roman city of Pompeii near Naples was destroyed and partially buried by a massive volcano when Mount Vesuvius erupted for two days, on this day, August 24th, 79 AD.
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August 22nd, 2008
Location: Mulligan’s Pub
Destination: Nashville, Tennessee
Country: United States
Year Taken: 2008
Photographer: Sam Crowell
Is there a better sign for an Irish Pub to hang over the bar?
This sign was found at Mulligan’s Pub, in historic downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
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August 21st, 2008
Location: A street just off the grounds of the Eiffel Tower
Destination: Paris
Country: France
Year Taken: 2007
Photographer: Jacy Meyer
Blog: Europe String
Here’s a unique view that you don’t see all that often, the Eiffel Tower from a side street.
Built as part of a competition to “study the possibility of
erecting an iron tower” for the Universal Exhibition of 1889 in Paris. The tower was opened in March of 1889.
It was the tallest building in the world for 40 years, until the Chrysler Building in New York City opened in 1929. _______________________________________________
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August 20th, 2008
Location: The John Hancock Building on North Michigan Avenue.
Destination: Chicago, Illinois
Country: United States
Year Taken: 2007
Photographer: Jon Rochetti
Blog: The DC Traveler
Located on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, the John Hancock Building (or Big John), is the third tallest of the three 100+ story skyscrapers that dominate Chicago’s skyline.
The Sears Tower at 108 stories and the Aon Center (formerly the Standard Oil Building) are number one and two respectively.
The Hancock building’s 94th floor observatory is open daily, as is The Signature Room, the restaurant and cocktail lounge serving food and drinks at new heights, on the 95th floor.
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August 19th, 2008
Location: City Hall in Sonoma Plaza
Destination: Sonoma, California
Country: United States
Year Taken: 20087
Photographer: Jon Rochetti
Blog: The DC Traveler
Opened in 1908, Sonoma’s City Hall, located at the center of the town’s main plaza was build with four identical facades, so that it would not offend local merchants who’s businesses faced the plaza. So from any side of the square, business owners could claim that City Hall faced their business.
The original town, El Pueblo de Sonoma, began as the Mission San Francisco Solano and was founded by the Spanish in 1823. It was the northern most mission of 21 on the famous El Camino Real (Royal Road).
Sonoma is also considered the birthplace of California independence, when local citizens proclaimed independence from Mexico in 1846.
The hall is located at the corner of W. Napa and Broadway (Route 12) in the center of the plaza.
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