Here are some photos from Japan as well as some of a temple I visited in Seoul.

A beautifully crafted bell in a temple called Bong-Eunsa

Well, alright, I guess they do have to ring it at the right time, but come on, they could have been more subtle

Stairway to Heaven

An awesome sight, hundreds of pure white lanterns create a rippling roof over the temple courtyard

A stone pagoda peeks through

Well tended tombs at the buddhist temple

Oasis

This is Seoul in a nutshell, a thousand year old temple surrounded by skyscapers

A japanese street scene. Note the ape on the girl's belly ("A bathing Ape-Ape shall never kill Ape") and the classic japanese girls dressed as Sailor Moon.

Kanga visits Shinsaibashi

If it exists, you can buy it from a vending machine in Japan...but Kanga thinks he's still the boss around here.

And this is why the air is cleaner in Osaka than in Seoul, good on 'em.

Psyching myself up before I release my special move on the camera holder.

Japanese subway wildlife wars

The ubiquitous sex shops on the streets of Japan, no red light district here, just an average neighbourhood.

ET phones home