Japan Travel Thread

McVicar

It's coming up as web page not available for me. Doing this from the website on my phone not the app.

Miss Mandy

Copy and paste the address into your browser and remove the spaces. The forum software doesn't play nicely with shortened links or google at the moment so direct links aren't working.

McVicar

All working now. Thank you

McVicar

Great photos, will have another look later on a bigger screen. Phone not doing them justice.

Can I ask the significance of the table (thought it was a snooker table at first)?

Oswald

Carom billiards - Wikipedia

McVicar

Thanks Oswald but still curious if there is a significance to the table. I see a sign in front of it (unfortunately can't translate) so wondered if it has a separate story behind it?

Oswald

Turns out I was wrong-ish, and that this is used for a different variant of billiards (using the same kind of table without pockets).  Here's a little bit of information about the billiard table and the building it is located in:

Nikko Tamozawa Imperial Villa Memorial Park - Nikko Travel Guide | Planetyze

"As an addition made in the Taisho Era, the Otamatsuki-jo (Billiards Room) was used for friendly exchange with foreign guests. There is a billiard table with no pockets used to play a 4-ball game called yotsudama."

McVicar

Thanks for the link. When I saw the table and then deduced that it was probably not a snooker table (although the lamps above didnt help my thinking) I wondered whether it may have been a map table or something that was significant with regards to the war etc.

Foster

Spot on =)

Foster

I've been looking at flights to Osaka, fair to say i'm missing Japan lol.