Bare Island Fort at Sunrise, La Perouse, Botany Bay, Sydney, NSW, Australia Bare Island is a small island in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located about 16km south east of the Sydney central business district, close to the northern headland of Botany Bay. Bare Island is connected by...
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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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Picture: Osaka at Sunset, Osaka, Kansai, Honshu, Japan More images: Osaka Stock Images | Japan Stock Images | Travel Stock Photography
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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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Fushimi Inari Taisha is a shinto jinja (shrine) dedicated to the spirit Inari, located in Fushimi-ku in about 2km south-east of Kyoto station, Japan. Fushimi Inari Taisha is without doubt the largest and most impressive Inari shrine in Japan. Fushimi Inari Taisha is also famous for appearing in the film Memoirs of a Geisha. Fushimi...
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