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Outside Tanashi Station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line.34 views
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Outside Tanashi Station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line.34 views
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The Marunouchi North Entrance's new dome is visible from the Chuo Line platform.34 views
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Leaving Tokyo Big Sight.34 views
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About the storehouse.34 views
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There are ten ladies who volunteer to make these hanging decorations every year by hand at their own expense. They add many new dolls each year to this hina doll display.34 views
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Sayama tea fields can be seen from the train near Hakonegasaki Station.34 views
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In front of Hakonegasaki Station on the JR Hachiko Line.34 views
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Zojoji temple34 views
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Omi Fair video taken on March 2, 2014 at Takashimaya Dept. Store in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. Funazushi, Omi beef, Biwa pearls, and more. We also saw Hiko-nyan.34 views
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Barrack model made of toothpicks.34 views
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Wooden sword and sheath.34 views
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Geta clogs.34 views
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In an adjacent room, they showed a short documentary previously aired by NHK TV. Unfortunately, they did not sell an exhibition catalog unlike in the States where they had one in English for sale (also available at Amazon).34 viewsWith all this interest in Japan, I hope they will be able to show it in more cities here (and in Hawai'i). I'm told that this exhibition in Tokyo is pretty much the same as the one at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2010. See their site for more (and clearer) photos of the art works: http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/gaman/index.cfm Geidai: http://www.geidai.ac.jp/museum/exhibit/2012/gaman/gaman_en.htm
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The park is popular with joggers and people walking their dogs.34 views
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Tokyo Sky Tree under construction in 2010.34 views
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Mejiro Teien Garden's attraction was fall foliage lit up at night.34 views
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A day in the life of a struggling geisha...34 views
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A string is attached to the middle of a stick and sake cup. You have to roll the stick until the sake cup reaches the stick.34 views
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Monchicchi hina dolls34 views
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Adjacent room shows a video about Nagahama Kannon.34 views
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Before the bean throwing, a few taiko drummer friends performed at 1 pm for 20 min. on the bean-throwing platform in front of the temple's Hondo main hall.34 views
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Pretty cold day, but it was sunny with little wind.34 views
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Ogre (oni) appear in a procession.34 views
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Crowd starts to gather for the bean throwing.34 views
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My lucky beans. The beans are in little plastic bags with a paper bottom.34 views
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In Muasashi-Murayama, the giant Dedara-botchi was carrying Mt. Jodo (浄土山) strapped to his back with vines. One of his footprints created a local well (still there).34 views
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Since it was windy, a crane and cable secured the float.34 views
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The festival site includes many food booths. It's a local festival started in 2006 and not a traditional matsuri (i.e. not held by a shrine or temple). But it's the city's largest festival. Not famous though. 34 views
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Toyota Corolla34 views
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Murayama-to float with ninja.34 views
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This small Nebuta shows a Dedara building an extension of the nearby monorail (from Tachikawa) to the city.34 views
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They really want the monorail to be extended to their city so they can finally have a rail station in their city.34 views
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Taiko drummer in yukata.34 views
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Get off here at the Ryotanji bus stop.34 views
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Way to the Ii Clan well.34 views
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About the birth well of Ii Tomoyasu.34 views
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Well near where the Ii Clan's founder Ii Tomoyasu was born in 1010.34 views
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Ryotanji temple's Hondo main worship hall34 views
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Seated Buddha statue inside Ryotanji's main hall.34 views
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Iinoya Castle34 views
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The liveliest part of the parade. These people were offering candy to spectators like they did in the old days.34 views
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The problem with this parade is that they don't identify who's who. I have a list of Edo Period characters in the parade and I can identify the major ones, but not this one with the bare shoulder. 34 views
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Chrysanthemum exhibits on the main path to Meiji Shrine.34 views
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The main event was yabusame horseback archery.34 views
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At the start of the horse track, the fan bearer (扇方 ogikata) uses a large fan to signal that the track is clear for the next archer to run.34 views
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These archers belong to the Takeda School of mounted archery. They are based in Miura, Kanagawa where they practice almost weekly. They have about 60 members.34 views
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Besides the costumes, the saddles and stirrups are very different from western ones.34 views
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The Kabuki-za Theater was rebuilt in March 2013 with a design almost identical to the previous theater. The biggest difference is the tall skyscraper integrated with theater.34 views
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Front entrance to Kabuki-za Theater.34 views
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Roof of Kabuki-za Theater34 views
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Local Tsukiji Honganji Boy Scout who asked me to answer an oral survey. 34 views
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Automatic turnstile at Ueno Station in 192734 views
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Subway history34 views
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The first subway car used between Shimbashi and Shibuya in the late 1930s.34 views
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Tohoku shinkansen34 views
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Tokaido shinkansen ticket issued in Sept. 196434 views
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Inside Hibari Limited Express.34 views
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"Silver seat" now usually called "Courtesy seat."34 views
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Enter the museum and you see this first: B1 class steam locomotive – No. 5 (built 1898 by Beyer, Peacock and Company).34 views
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Model train diorama at Tobu Museum. This is Rothenburg.34 views
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Views of Akasaka from near TBS.34 views
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Dragon34 views
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Hagi is a National Important Traditional Townscape Preservation District (重要伝統的建造物群保存地区).34 views
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You can drive up halfway up the mountain (called Mitsukuriyama 箕作山) which is 350 meters high. If you don't have a car, climb over 700 steps to reach the shrine's main hall.34 views
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Ornate ceiling of Ichigansha Shrine 一願社 (一願成就社). 34 views
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This way to see the Tengu statue.34 views
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Walk around this post and another 50 meters away 100 times to eliminate your troubles.34 views
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To go back to the train station on foot, go down these stairs.34 views
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On the day of the bonfire festival, they have shuttle buses going between the train station and Tarobogu Shrine. Highly recommend taking the bus.34 views
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Get off the bus and here we are. A large clearing (shrine's parking lot) surrounded by a large crowd.34 views
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Prayer before the fire walk.34 views
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Glad to take the shuttle bus back to the trasin station.34 views
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Room showing farm tools.34 views
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Travel routes from Japan to South America.34 views
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History of the emigrant center: 2007-200934 views
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Emigrant's living quarters.34 views
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Exhibition room showing emigration photos.34 views
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Kobe Port34 views
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Kobe Port Tower view of Kobe and Rokko mountains.34 views
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Another lookout deck.34 views
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Window looking down.34 views
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Kobe Port Emigrant Ship Boarding Monument34 views
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Kobe's emigrant history.34 views
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About Meriken Pier.34 views
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Vending machines in Chinese.34 views
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Trash talk34 views
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Clacity34 views
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From 12:30 pm on Oct. 17, 2017, the floats started to gather at this large parking lot with bleachers (¥4,000 paid seating). Too bad the bleachers were all sold out for this day.34 viewsOtherwise, it would've provided a great vantage point to photograph all the floats line
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