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2023-4-23 Street in front of our hotel, Ginza Dist, Tokyo
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4-23 Display outside huge high-end shopping complex, Ginza District
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4-23 Ty, Ginza Street
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4-23 Ty, Kobayashi Bonsai Museum
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4-23 Banners outside Tokyo National Museum
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4-24 High class Japanese knife store in train station, Ginza
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4-24 Outer Market, seaweed for sale
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4-24 Yanaka Buddhist Cemetery
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Yanaka Cemetery, tomb of Chiyonofugi Mitsugu, Sumo champion
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In front of Mitsugu tomb, Yanaka
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Asakura Sculpture Museum, Taito, Yanaka
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Kyoo-ji Temple, Yanaka, where the forces of the Tokugawa Shogun made their last stand against Imperial forces, after which rule returned to the Imperial family and the era of Shoguns ended.
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Yanaka Street, guide Hiroshi at right
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Nezu Shrine, Bunkyo District, Tokyo. Est. 1705, famous for its Spring Azalea Festival
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Nezu Shrine, Liz with prayers & wished
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Nezu Shrine, azaleas
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4-25 Kamakura, seat of the first “modern”shogunate, 1185. The Guardian at the Torii Gate, beginning of the elevated causeway leading to the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, Kamakura's most important shrine. It was founded by Minamoto Yoriyoshi in 1063, and enlarge
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4-25 Torii Gate at end of causeway, entrance to Tsurugaoka Hachimangu. One bows when passing through a Torii Gate
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4-25 Gardens surrounding Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine
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Tsurugaoka-hachimangu Shrine, Kamakura
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4-25 Tsurugaoka-hachimangu Shrine, Tradition to remove Ty’s evil karma
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4-25 In front of prayer wheels
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4-25 Guardian of the Great Buddha, Kamakura
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4-25 Schoolkids posing with Great Buddha, Kamakura. The Great Buddha, 1252, cast in bronze. For its first 300 years it was covered by a massive building, but earthquakes and typhoons destroyed the building, and it has been weathering in the open for near
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4-25 Liz & Great Buddha, Kamakura
