Matsumoto

I have decided that I am not very good at developing color film.  Everything has a blue cast to it that I can't quite work out.

Anyway, Matsumoto is a nice little town in the Japanese Alps.  Its main attraction is Matsumoto Castle.  The castle is painted black with white accents, which makes for a cool contrast, and brings out the colors in the nearby trees.

You can go inside and have a look for  a fee.  There are artifacts on display, and you can still make out the chisel marks on the wood beams (had they not invented the wood plane by then?).   It's pretty neat inside and you get nice views from the windows, but the thing was, it ate up over an hour of time because some of the stairs are tall and awkward, and people (particularly kids and old people) get bottlenecked on them.

The castle grounds are pretty nice, if a bit crowded with tourists for the cherry blossom season.  Definitely a nice place for a stroll though.

Hey check it out, it says "bokeh"