Japanistic/Blog

In doing research for one of my other blogs–shameless promotion for my parents made me wear this–I stumbled upon these images of historical monument stamps in Japan. According to dotpattern, historical venues in Japan often have rubber stamp stations-”a simple card table with stamp pads at train stations, temples, and shrines.” (via)

The obsessive-compulsive crafter in me loves the idea of checking off the historical monuments visited with a cool stamp.

This one “glorifies the various forms of Shinkansen or ‘bullet train’ at the main strain station at Tokyo.”

From the train station at Hamamatsu City.

I love this one of Kyoto.

Stampers fill rally books as they travel for a terrific momento–or at least, that’s how I think of it. Then again, our poor kid has more than 20 photos albums filled with photos of him, and he’s only 9!

Of course, since we are fans of Astro Boy, I loved this stamp book, meant for the Astro Boy stamp rally for his official “birthday” in 2003.

The book was part of Stamp Rally held throughout train stations in Tokyo prizes for dedicated stampers!

I wonder who won the 10000 Yen prize that was offered. Who wouldn’t love a Stamp Scavenger Hunt with money involved!?!