Welcome
to my April 2002 photo album from Japan.
To
read the stories that accompany these photos, click
here
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Joseph
in front of Heian Jingu, a very big shrine in Kyoto
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The
architecture at Heian Jingu is one
reason for Kyoto's fame
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Before
using the stepping-stones read this!
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Kae
being careful of the footing sufficiently
and taking care about the accident in case and so on
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In
the shrine gardens hundreds of cherry trees carpet the
sky with blossom
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Japan's
most famous tree, located in a park in central Kyoto.
After recent surgery it's looking a bit skinny this season,
but very beautiful nonetheless.
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The
blossom trails down from overhead trellises
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A
tunnel of trees with a bad case of dandruff
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Kinkaku-ji,
the famous goldleaf-coated temple of Kyoto
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Having
seen so many photos of it in the past,
it didn't really seem real in reality!
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In
Arashiyama we escaped the crowds by hiring a boat and
dissappearing off upstream
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We
took a zig-zag route, although that wasn't really by choice...
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