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A large vermilion gate stands at the top of a wide stone staircase surrounded by greenery and visitors.

Tokyo

2016 · Japan

CountriesJapan
Stages2

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Thousands of city lights twinkle across Tokyo's sprawling skyline, seen from a high observation window at night.A menu board lists unusual grilled offal cuts such as pork trachea, beef heart and pork uterus.A comic-style poster on a subway pillar warns riders to press the emergency stop button, showing a shouting man beside a red button.A Japanese palace gatehouse with white walls and a dark roof stands beyond a grassy moat bank lined with pines.From inside a coach on an elevated expressway, a white truck drives beneath a green direction sign toward glass skyscrapers.A scramble crossing with zebra stripes in every direction lies before traditional Japanese shopfronts.A broad gravel path runs through trees toward a large red temple gate, with visitors strolling toward the entrance.A wooden rack stacked with decorated sake barrels stands before a shrine in Kamakura.A traditional Kamakura shrine pavilion with a curved tiled roof and red pillars in a wooded courtyard.A large vermilion gate stands at the top of a wide stone staircase surrounded by greenery and visitors.White ceremonial sake barrels wrapped in straw and painted with Japanese calligraphy are stacked on wooden shelves.A grand wooden hall with an ornate dark tiled roof faces a courtyard where visitors browse stalls and signboards.A weathered stone komainu guardian dog sits beside stone temple steps in front of a red wooden fence in Kamakura.From a hillside, a temple hall with a dark hipped roof sits in a courtyard ringed by trees.Vermilion-lacquered shrine buildings and a covered wooden corridor surround a pavilion decorated with a golden floral painting.Visitors stand before a red-painted temple hall and a wooden offering box.Looking down from a temple, a sweeping view shows tiled rooftops, dark pines and a distant street with a red torii gate.A quiet garden pond mirrors bare winter trees beneath a red wooden bridge railing.A Kamakura garden with a reflective pond, wooden bridge and a railed building behind trees.A dark moss-covered boulder rests on a stone base amid ferns in a shaded park garden.A dark wooden shrine gate with a curved roof stands at the end of a stone path, approached by a lone visitor.A square stone basin filled with water has bamboo spouts and brass ladles for visitors to purify themselves.A gravel path runs beside a still pond and stone bridge, with a red footbridge among bare trees in a Kamakura park.A gnarled tree with exposed roots stands beside a small pond edged with stones in a Kamakura park.

Journal Notes (2)
2016 Tokyo 2

General The second day in Japan was the day of the old capital. It began in Tokyo with a coach on the elevated expressway and a first view of the Imperial Palace across its moat, continued southwards to Kamakura on the coast of Sagami Bay, and ended after dark at the busiest pede …

2016 Tokyo 1

General Tokyo is the capital and the most populous city of Japan, and the first day of this visit was spent between its museums and its tallest tower. The city proper has more than fourteen million inhabitants and the Greater Tokyo Area, which includes parts of six neighbouring p …