Top 10 Readers’ Photos: August

Each month, we select our favorite travel images from readers. Tag your photo on Instagram or Twitter with #GaijinPotTravel for a chance to be featured on our site.

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1. Beyond rectangular in Fukuoka.

A post shared by Franco (@francoimaging) on Aug 23, 2017 at 5:30pm PDT

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2. Tinder date gone wrong (or so right?!) in Chiba?

A post shared by Carlos Kato (@chkato) on Aug 18, 2017 at 5:39am PDT

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3. Festive angles in Nagano.

A post shared by Orrin (@nirro04) on Aug 6, 2017 at 5:42am PDT

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4. Camping in Yamaguchi looks… ?

A post shared by VictoriaMarie (@coffeemanong) on Aug 14, 2017 at 8:27pm PDT

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5. Aug. 11 was Mountain Day, after all. Go hike a few!

A post shared by Savvy Tokyo (@savvytokyo) on Aug 12, 2017 at 7:53pm PDT

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6. Never thought we’d put Disney and proper date spot in the same sentence, but 2017 has brought a lot of surprises.

A post shared by Frame of Travel (@frameoftravel) on Aug 29, 2017 at 6:57pm PDT

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7. Bluest of the blue… Hayama Beach! ✌?

A post shared by Magda, Travel Japan, Japonia (@moneypenny_in_nippon) on Aug 6, 2017 at 5:02pm PDT

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8. Naoshima art will bring you back to life.

A post shared by u_v (@universal_voyager) on Aug 6, 2017 at 2:26am PDT

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9. “…A whole other way to live, without a steady prop, embracing the foreign, and not hemmed in by familiarity.” (As seen in Takaragawa Onsen.)

A post shared by Crista Priscilla (@cristapriscilla) on Aug 1, 2017 at 3:00am PDT

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10. From the caption: “The delivery costs must be sky high up here.” (August’s obligatory Mt. Fuji climbing photo!)

A post shared by u_v (@universal_voyager) on Jul 31, 2017 at 4:05pm PDT