My trip to Japan, from August 11th - August 25th, 1998. |
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Picture of me, i'm standing in the doorway of Shimamura Sama's vacation house at Hotaka-machi. It was a very interesting log style house built for them by Canadians, but in the Japanese style. Roman is sitting in the bottom right corner of the picture. |
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Picture of me standing in front of Zenkoji Temple. |
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Me with Shimamura San's family and Mrs. Baltazar (Roman's mom) at a street leading up to Zenkoji. |
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A monk standing in the street.. i don't know what he was doing, i think he was praying and waiting for donations. He had a cool looking outfit though! (note: I have since been informed that this might be a female monk, it's hard to say though!) |
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The huge temple lantern at Asakusa. |
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A long street marketplace that leads up to Asakusa Temple. |
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A large picture of downtown Tokyo that i took from when i was up in Tokyo Tower. |
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The entrance to the Meji Jingu gardens and temple. |
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The courtyard of Meji Jingu Temple |
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same as index 1, but for pictures 9 to 16. |
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Another photo of Meji Jingu. |
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Picture showing amazing wood detail work on temple door at Meji Jingu. |
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Five story pagoda at Asakusa. |
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The Minamoto Shrine (i think) in Kamakura. |
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The Daibutsu (Great Buddha) in Kamakura. It is a 37' bronze figure that was built in 1292. It is the 2nd largest Buddha in the world. |
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A picture taken from the bridge in Asakusa, not too far from where my Hotel was. This shows a really weird looking "landmark" building with some kind of yellow thing on top of it; no one was ever able to explain to me what it was supposed to be. |
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This is the Akihabara "Electronics District" section of Tokyo, they had all kinds of amazing technology there! |
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This is looking down the stairwell of a store that was like 7 stories tall. I thought it was a small store when i first entered it, till i found the stairs and kept on going up! |