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July 18, 2019May 16, 2019

New Photo: The Tunnels of Fushimi Inari

Fushimi Inari Taisha is the head shrine of the kami Inari, located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto – and its one hell of a walk! There are hundreds of these red Tori gates alongside a small mountain and they make for awesome photos. The difficult part was to not have 1000 people in each photo – having …

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June 6, 2019May 15, 2019

New Photo: The Monks Door

This door is the entrance for monks of the world-famous Yamadera temple in Japan. It is rather interesting – I thought the temples were pure tourist attractions nowadays – which really just shows how little I know about Japan – but turns out that once the temple closes, the monks take over again and go …

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