Black Matsumoto Castle, Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Chubu region, Honshu Island, Japan More images: Matsumoto Stock Images | Japan Stock Images | Travel Stock Photography
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Gate Tower Building and Hanshin Expressway, Osaka, Kansai, Honshu, Japan I made this photo of the Nishi-Umeda (West-Umeda) skyscrapers in Osaka, Japan from the top floor of the Floating Garden Observatory in Umeda Sky Building. You can see the Gate Tower Building on the right and Hanshin Expressway. The Gate Tower Building is one of...
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Ema, Prayer Tablets, at Kaikozan Hase-dera Temple, Kaikozan Hase-dera Temple, Kamakura, Honshu, Japan Ema are small wooden plaques on which Shinto worshippers write their prayers or wishes. The ema are then left hanging up at the shrine, where the kami (spirits or gods) receive them. They bear various pictures, often of animals or other Shinto...
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Namba Parks Shopping Centre at Night, Osaka, Kansai region, Honshu Island, Japan More images: Osaka Stock Images | Japan Stock Images | Travel Stock Photography
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Picture: Matsumoto Castle at Sunset, Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Chubu region, Honshu Island, Japan More images: Matsumoto Stock Images | Japan Stock Images | Travel Stock Photography
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Picture: Osaka at Sunset, Osaka, Kansai, Honshu, Japan More images: Osaka Stock Images | Japan Stock Images | Travel Stock Photography
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Picture: Storm Clearing Over Mountains Near Matsumoto, Japan I just realised I’m shooting more and more black and white photographs. Don’t know why. I always considered myself as a colour landscape person until recently. Now I’m converting some of my photos to B/W and truly speaking I like it. More images: Japan Stock Images |...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Posted in Japan, Osaka
Picture: Nishi-Umeda Skyscrapers after Sunset, Osaka, Kansai, Honshu, Japan More images: Osaka Stock Images | Japan Stock Images | Travel Stock Photography
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Picture: Ten Thousands of Red Torii Gates at Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto, Kansai, Honshu, Japan Yesterday I was reading about hurricanes and tropical cyclones with category 5, like Katrina that destroyed New Orleans or Yasi that recently hit Queensland, Australia. To my surprise the typhoon Melor that hit Japan and Tokyo on October 8, 2009,...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Posted in Japan, Kyoto
Kinkakuji (also known as “Golden Temple” or “Golden Pavilion”) is one of Kyoto’s best-known attractions. It was built in 1393 as a retirement villa for Shogun Yoshimitsu Ashikaga. He intended to cover the exterior with gold, but only managed to coat the the ceiling of the third floor with gold leaf before his death. After...
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