I was recently on holiday in Japan, and I took this video out the window of a Shinkansen travelling from Tokyo to Hiroshima. I wasn’t expecting to share this online so I didn’t think much about its technical qualities (I should have taken it in landscape and not portrait), but the result is a pretty nice little view of the Japanese countryside.

I’ve posted this to Vimeo for a couple of reasons:

• My phone (which is what I used to record the video) can upload to Vimeo natively
• Vimeo makes embedding videos in a blog ridiculously easy
• I prefer it to the overcrowded, low-quality nature of YouTube

Anyway, here it is: