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Luke Zellar on a free throw and Coach Pierce looks on.62 views
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On the way to Bannaji temple, this statue of the Ashikaga lord.62 views
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Finally a woman. This is Alevtina Biktimirova, a Russian who was the first woman runner to cross the finish line and claim 8 million yen in prize money for Tokyo Marathon 2010.62 views
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I saw a few honeybee costumes.62 views
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Minnie again.62 views
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The beachfront is a mishmash of buildings.62 views
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Meanwhile, outside the Hikone Bunka Plaza Hall were hordes of people crowding around the mascot characters.62 views
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Mimi-chan from Minami-ku, Sakai, Osaka Pref. A female flower promoting Minami-ku. Notice the bee on her forehead. みみちゃん (大阪 堺市南区)62 views
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Introduction of Tokyo Apache players. The team's colors are purple and black.62 views
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Introduction of Tokyo Apache players as they make a grand entrance on stage as the curtain lifted.62 views
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Chris Schlatter62 views
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Gary Hamilton62 views
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Basketball court at Yokohama Bunka Gymnasium. Not a sellout crowd. Tokyo Apache has been doing poorly this season without Joe Bryant as head coach.62 views
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Ray Schafer62 views
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Sarugaku entertainers from the Omi Sarugaku Taga-za troupe. 猿楽62 views
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These trees stood out.62 views
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Finally a shot with almost no cars.62 views
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The base has three legs shaped like a triangle. One side of this triangle is about 70 meters wide.62 views
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Shopping/hotel complex (Solamachi) being built next to the tower.62 views
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Bus terminal at the Entrance Plaza. The free shuttle buses can take you to both JR and Kintetsu Nara Station.62 views
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Back of Suzaku Gate.62 views
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Cooling mists at Hands-on Learning Center.62 views
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Pottery workshop62 views
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Korean contingent (drummers)62 views
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At this end of the pine tree path, there is the Taikobashi Bridge and the red torii. This is where the crowd is concentrated to see the mikoshi being raised and the phoenix atop the mikoshi pulled out and raised by the mikoshi rider..62 views
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A unique thing about this festival is that the mikoshi rider pulls out and raises the mikoshi's top ornament (usually a phoenix). 鵜の息抜き62 views
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All that gravel can make it quite dusty.62 views
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Shrine maidens.62 views
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About Tagi Shrine. The shrine was established to protect the area from flooding by two nearby rivers. Thus it is near the river.62 views
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Kenketo dancer and his reward.62 views
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They danced in front of Tenmangu Shrine, then danced around the shrine a few times.62 views
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They performed their routine twice along different sections of this horse track to enable everyone to see it. It was about 20 min. long.62 views
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I followed them to the lake shore as the sky got darker.62 views
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They made a U-turn at the Otabisho near the lake shore.62 views
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Passing by the elementary school. The stone marker indicates the way to Hiyoshi Jinja.62 views
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They ran while pulling the float into the shrine grounds.62 views
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My YouTube video featuring three outstanding awa odori dance troupes on Aug. 29, 2009 in Koenji: Kokesaku (from Tokushima) 苔作, Edo-uki-ren 江戸浮連, and Edokko-ren 江戸っ子連.62 views
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My YouTube video of Otsuka Awa Odori featuring local Otsuka (Toshima Ward) dance troupes.62 views
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3rd floor. It is an interesting boat. The inside is clean and pleasant. Hard to believe that it's considered old at age 27. They should hold these open house events more often and at other ports like Nagahama.62 views
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Carrying the main mikoshi to the boat.62 views
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The hikiyama float is then pulled along the narrow road heading for the next location where it will perform again.62 views
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The taiko drum procession is headed by this large banner saying, "Ibuki-yama Hono Taiko Odori" which means Ibuki-yama Taiko Drum Offertory Dance.62 views
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JR Utsunomiya Station62 views
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Park area of Utsunomiya Castle. This is behind the moat. The view on the moat side is more impressive. The wall looks higher.62 views
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Roller skating group entertained. 東京都ローラースポーツ連盟62 views
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Bridge in Osugi-cho. 大杉町62 views
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Kawara Roof Tile Museum62 views
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Outdoor sculpture at Kawara Roof Tile Museum, Omi-Hachiman, Shiga62 views
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Inside 1st floor of Haku'unkan. The building was beautifully restored in 1994.62 views
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2nd floor exhibition space of Haku'unkan. 62 views
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Torches near Himure Hachimangu Shrine's Romon Gate. This is also one location where the film Idai Naru, Shurararabon (偉大なる、しゅららぼん The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom) was filmed. The ceremony for baby Ryosuke.62 views
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Smaller torches.62 views
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The torches leave a trail of fire.62 views
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This is the shop depicted in Hiroshige's print. Called Ibuki-do. It is the last surviving maker of moxa cautery in Kashiwabara. 伊吹堂亀屋佐京商店62 views
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Torii gate to Isame no Shimizu spring waters.62 views
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Hiroshige's print of Samegai-juku in his Kisokaido series.62 views
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Otsu City Hall. The clock plays Lake Biwa Rowing Song.62 views
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Dragon boat ride at Ogoto. Ogoto is a major hot spring town.62 views
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Leaving the beach in front of Hotel Laforet.62 views
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That's Hotel Laforet in the background, where the rowers stayed every night during the rowing tour and commuted to/from the rowing start/end points.62 views
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Rowing through the torii. Seta Rowing Club ground crew greet the rowers from land.62 views
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The torii in the water is perfectly aligned with the torii on land and the shrine's main worship hall.62 views
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Final stop for the day was here at Shirahama Beach. "Shirahama" means white sand beach.62 views
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The procession includes the Sacred Horse. 神馬62 views
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Whenever a shuttle bus comes and goes, two women dressed as Go and Azai Nagamasa say Welcome or Goodbye to the passengers.62 views
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Pray here in front of the Honden Hall. Normally, you cannot enter beyond this point.62 views
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The waterfall is about 5 meters high.62 views
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Altar inside Hondo.62 views
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Corridor connecting the Hondo to the Yakushido Hall.62 views
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Kannon statue at Kannonji.62 views
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Nakasendo Road: Takamiya (Hikone). The sixty-fourth of the sixty-nine stations or shukuba post towns on the Nakasendo Road.62 views
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Omi-Hakkei (Eight Views of Omi 近江八景): Evening Glow at Seta. Today, you can see a modern version of Seta-no-Karahashi Bridge.62 views
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Omi-Hakkei (Eight Views of Omi 近江八景): Evening Bell at Miidera Temple62 views
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There was no MC, and no public announcements. Here they are exchanging gifts. Hawaii gave them something from Hilo Hattie's, a gift shop in Honolulu.62 views
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Yonezawa sidewalk.62 views
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Daikoku and Ebisu, two gods of good fortune.62 views
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Hard to tell what the main attraction is.62 views
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In front of Sensoji temple at Hozomon Gate, two portable shrines stand by.62 views
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Festival musicians on a cart at Hozomon Gate. 宝蔵門62 views
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Sanja banners.62 views
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Asakusa Shrine priest.62 views
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Year 628: Two fishermen brothers find a golden Kannon buddha statue in Sumida River. The two fishermen were Hinokuma no Hamanari and Takenari. A wealthy landowner named Hajinomatsuchi heard about the statue and told the brothers about its religious value.62 views
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Ichinomiya mikoshi or portable shrine No. 1. The biggest of the three.62 views
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The bird feeder.62 views
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This is the baton twirler (bo-furi 棒ふり) in orange pants followed by the bird feeder.62 views
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Tekomai geisha weren't in sync.62 views
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The dock on Sumida River where the portable shrines will be loaded onto a boat.62 views
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Patrol boats stand by. There was a lot of security on the river for this procession.62 views
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This boat carried Asakusa geisha.62 views
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First they headed north to Sakura-bashi Bridge, then went south all the way to Ryogoku.62 views
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To reenact the boat procession, they had to work with very few records of the last time it was held in 1958. Only a few photos remained. In 1958, each mikoshi was carried by a separate boat.62 views
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The three mikoshi were then carried to Kaminarimon Gate in Asakusa at 5:40 pm.62 views
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Video room explaining the Battle of Anegawa River.62 views
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Exhibits about the Battle of Anegawa River.62 views
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Banners with the names of the seven spearing samurai.62 views
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Entrance to Azai Folk History Museum where one of the buildings is the expo's Azai Paviion. Admission 300 yen.62 views
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About former Jomo Muslin Office's telegram office.62 views
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The dome building is a restaurant called Victorian House.62 views
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Autumn leaves at Lake Kawaguchi (northern shore). The trees are also lit up at night during the Koyo festival.62 views
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The gourds grown here are used for decorative purposes.62 views
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Souvenir shop.62 views
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Fire watch tower.62 views
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Gold medal for Tokyo Marathon winner.62 views
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Side entertainers included yosakoi dancers.62 views
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So we enter the store to look at the hina dolls.62 views
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This fish monger had hina decorations made of clam shells.62 views
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JR Akishima Station north exit.62 views
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Cake maker62 views
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Mini theater62 views
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Kids could also make a small kite for 300 yen.62 views
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Rear view of the waterwheel station as seen from the train.62 views
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Waterwheel objects on Notogawa Station's west side.62 views
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On Jan. 1, 2014, a steady stream of worshippers head for Taga Taisha Shrine.62 views
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The crowd gets thicker near the shrine's entrance.62 views
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Sorry I couldn't wait in line and went to the front and prayed from the side and instead of front and center.62 views
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Kohoku Mizudori Station, a local roadside shop/restaurant for tourists traveling by car.62 views
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Entrance to Sugatani Onsen. This building was built anew in fall 2004. The old facility still stands further behind this building.62 views
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Lockers62 views
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Welcome to Mt. Ibuki.62 views
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Bicycles near Tamagawa-Jōsui Station.62 views
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Tama Toshi Monorail Line platform.62 views
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The Thunderbirds exhibition was held during July 10 to Sept. 23, 2013.62 views
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Parker and Lady Penelope. The puppets are about as tall as the length between your fingertips and elbow.62 views
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Thunderbird 162 views
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Plastic model of Thunderbird 462 views
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1969 was when man first landed on the moon.62 views
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Naoko Yamazaki62 views
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Sakura confection62 views
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Experts have concluded that the lake bottom has become too sandy instead of having the fine clay-like soil that the lotus require.62 viewsMethane gas is also on the increase and there's a lack of oxygen due to the layers of dead lotus plants.
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However, in summer 2016, these lotus plants died. Cause remained a mystery for a while until experts concluded it was due to sandy soil.62 views
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During Oct. 5 to Nov. 24, 2013, for the first time since its discovery in Yasu in 1881, Japan's largest bronze bell was exhibited at the Dotaku Bronze Bell Museum. Buses to the museum ran from Yasu Station.62 views
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Assembly Hall, a stately building.62 views
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