Where is this?

Mike,
In your google pic, the top red, bed looking thingy, is roughly where i took the picture.
The yard, in my pic, if you zoom is is thus (attached) used to be Hitachi, i think its changed names now.
The in-law was a naval architect too...all on his own door step no less!

I can see I'm going to have to be more picky with my pix!

 

ok...a bit more tricky now...lets see how you get on with this beauty

 

Oonoo I did not say anything! I was not permitted this turn!




But I PMed John...........

 

That´s the same Region John.
Still on Honshu

 

er....guess again

 

Reading the signs..
Shop wall on the right. KU-MI-A-I written with hiragana, thats UNION.. first kanji HYõ means ICE, the rest are just too blurry to see how many strokes they have.
Oil tank behind the boat shows only one, SHIN, gentleman.
The tallest building at the top , a bit blurry but could be BUTSU/MOTSU=thing,object ,DAN/NAN=man, behind the pole, SHI=man,samurai,retainer, blurry but quess IN=cause(be due,depend on), KÕ=shine (light,ray) HO-TE-RU in katakana meaning hotel..

Not many clues.. Ice shop and a hotel

 

Northern Finland, where else.

 

Teddy...my my, keen eye!
So, where would one expect such, geographically, in Japan???

 

Why's the sailors face and name of the boat erased?? ... Reflection is so distorted And that big building on the top... argh! You making me mad.. Don't know how to write Kanji's in Google Earth search
Reckon however eastern Kyushu closer to Nagasaki maybe..

 

For me it looks more like the southern part of Shikoku.

 

ahhh...maybe i have you this time....

 

Dunno how successful Teddy will come out with Kanji´s, but for me it´s hopeless without another verbal hint.

 

Google turns my search towards enlightment .. Butsudan and Jusan Butsu.. Shingon school... totally lost

 

ahhh...so, finally a tricky one perhaps?

Ok...your suggestions, so far, have been "too warm"

 

Teddy we must go to the russian border I think.

even this did not help
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Flags_of_municipalities_of_Hokkaido