Emperor's Standard
Visit to Japan, June 2010
Tokyo, Nara, Kyoto
Above and below: Sensō-ji Buddhist temple in the Akasuka district of Tokyo.
Tokyo, side entrance to the Imperial Palace complex.
Tokyo, Yebisu Garden Place (with Hotel Westin, left, in the background).
Kyu-Shiba-rikyu Garden, one of two surviving feudal era Japanese gardens in Tokyo.
Ginza Street, Tokyo.
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City of Nara: Great Buddha Hall of theTodai-ji temple complex, the largest wooden building in the world, housing the world's largest bronze statue of the Buddha Vairocana. |
Old village street in the City of Nara.
Kyoto, Golden Pavilion, Kinkakuji Temple.
Kyoto: Imperial Palace complex.
Kyoto, Kiyomizu Temple.
My views of Tokyo.
My views of Nara and Kyoto.
Background melody: Sakura Sakura ( さくら さくら), traditional Japanese folk song, depicting spring, the season of cherry blossom.