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These women are in the traditional / ceremonial dress. Note
that they are wearing kimonos. Also, it must have took them 30 minutes
to walk from the temple to the gates because they had to stop every few
steps to let japanese men take photos of them.
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So this is the back of a temple in Asakusa.
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So I tried to get an old Japanese man who looked like an experienced photographer since he had a very expensive professional camera. Unfortunately, I could not ask him to take my picture with my camera in Japanese. I pointed at my camera and tried to look desperate. He took one look at me, grunted, and passed along. So I ended up getting this cool looking black man with two fine looking Japanese women to take it (I know he spoke English). One of the women asked to be in the picture jokingly.
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A very traditional Japanese tower style building in the same area of Asakusa. For those of you who don't know, Asakusa is a district of Tokyo.
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On each side of this walkway are small shops from end to end. You could buy anything touristy that you could think of from incense to swords. There was also alot of small food vendors too. Oh yea, this place gets packed with people too - when I went down this way, its elbow to elbow all the way.
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This was the back gate to the temple area. The place I went to first because I wanted a different way in because of the mass amounts of people the front way. Apparently they want you to go through the shops to spend that tourist money.
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This is the train ride back from Hiraizumi (it took about 1 hour to get there via the Shinkansen and a local train from Ichinoseki to Hiraizumi). Confused - I took the Bullet Train (Shinkansen) from Sendai to Ichinoseki and a local train from Ichinoseki to Hiraizumi.
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So this is a shrine at the temple ruins I visited in Hiraizumi.
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