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Sera, Hiroshima — Summer
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Sera, Hiroshima — Summer

A quiet summer afternoon in a highland town

Sera sits in the very middle of Hiroshima Prefecture, a small highland town where you can walk along the river from one end to the other. I brought three Pentax 67 medium-format lenses on a GFX. No bullet trains, no tourist crowds — just the cool air of the plateau and a quiet summer afternoon.

This trip is not in a book yet. The photos go out one a day on social media; here they are collected as magazine pages, in the order they arrived.

Vintage lenses for this trip
pentax67 75mm f4.5
pentax67 165mm f2.8
pentax67 105mm f2.4
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Sera is a plateau town about 400 m above sea level. Follow the river through town and you pass a bridge with red railings and rows of tiled roofs, unhurried.

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Upstream there is a shrine with a red arched bridge hidden in the trees. A little farther on, an old farmhouse served lunch in a tatami room whose windows were full of green.

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The Pentax 67 lenses were heavy, but they caught the quiet air of Sera softly, just as it was. There are no tourist crowds here — and yet it is a town I want to walk again. Why not take your favorite vintage lens and visit Sera yourself?

Lenses on this tripView all lenses

pentax67 105mm f2.4pentax67 105mm f2.4See sample photos →

pentax67 75mm f4.5 ／ pentax67 165mm f2.8　Sample library coming soon

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TOMONORI
TOMONORI

Born in Yokohama.
Entrepreneur, photographer, and author.
Runs vintage accessory-parts shops in Yokohama and Jiyugaoka, Tokyo.
Writes e-books about traveling Japan with vintage lenses.
Through shops and books, working to give the good old things
that are quietly disappearing a new value and a new life.

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