One of my many time-wasting activities (according to my wife) is my numerous attempts to relocate on google maps an image from one of the Japanese-themed subscriptions I have on FB. Call it boredom or call it an unhealthy fixation with the country I once lived and worked in, but I really do enjoy getting a match, whether it be a temple, restaurant, landmark ort beauty spot. Sometimes it takes a few minutes, sometimes an hour or two. Quite frequently I have to concede defeat.

In the case of the following two shots, I had to do a work-around. Google maps would not let me stand in the spot I wanted to, so I took myself across the road and captured the reverse image, more or less - looking back at where the original photo was taken from. The train line is San-yo Railway from Kobe and this spot is very close to Shioya Station. The other direction is Akashi.