Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Giant Kaleidescope in Nagahama

Yesterday, I visited the town of Nagahama, in Shiga-ken. After passing through some very ordinary scenery, you finally get to Nagahama and enter the extremely attractive Kurokabe Square area. Here, if you look carefully, you will find one of my favorite sights in Shiga: the Giant Kaleidescope:


You actually walk into the thing and turn a wheel that makes fantastic shapes appear above you. It's like some sort of moving stained glass window. Here's a shot I took from inside the Giant Kaleidescope: