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Shibuya Station, Hachiko statue2671 views
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Shibuya Station, Hachiko statue1703 views
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Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit 渋谷駅 ハチ公口1174 views
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Shibuya Station, Hachiko Square1076 views
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Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit smoking area859 views
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Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit smoking area718 views
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Popular meeting place at Shibuya Station, south exit.689 views
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Shibuya Station, Hachiko Exit smoking area cigarette butts687 views
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Shibuya crossing562 views
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To Dogenzaka and Center-gai arcade512 views
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Shibuya Station, South Exit, as seen from Tokyu Plaza 渋谷駅南口453 views
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Center-gai arcade421 views
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Center-gai arcade408 views
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Shibuya Station, South Exit, Tokyu Plaza 渋谷駅南口370 views
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Shibuya crossing344 views
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Shibuya Station342 views
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Shibuya Station, South Exit, as seen from Tokyu Plaza 渋谷駅南口329 views
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Yoyogi Park, Tokyo in spring302 views
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Cherry blossom pinickers from Hawaii at Yoyogi Park, Tokyo. They are playing the ukulele and dancing hula.233 views
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Atsuhime at Shibuya Kagoshima Ohara Festival 184 views
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Money in the offertory pit on New Year's Day at Meiji Shrine.177 views
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The performed two songs, TOKYO Ohara TOKYOオハラ and Chesuto! Ohara チェスト！おはら. 167 views
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Saigo Takamori and his dog at Shibuya Kagoshima Ohara Festival.164 views
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Saigo Takamori, Atsuhime, and Okubo Toshimichi at Shibuya Kagoshima Ohara Festival.164 views
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New Year's Day at Meiji Shrine. A total of 3 million people give New Year's prayers (Hatsumode) at Meiji Shrine. Japan's most popular shrine during New Year's.164 views
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Shibuya Kagoshima Ohara Festival 163 views
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The dance parade restarted for the second half of the festival, Shibuya Kagoshima Ohara Festival.160 views
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Baton twirlers at Shibuya Kagoshima Ohara Festival154 views
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On her legs is a summer pelt of deer fur (muka-baki 行縢). It supposed to cushion any fall from the horse. Fortunately, no one fell off the horse this day.149 views
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Actor Toshiro Mifune at Meiji Shrine.148 views
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Actor Toshiro Mifune presides over the yabusame horseback archery at Meiji Shrine. The first and last time I saw this living legend in person. He was a student of the Takeda School of mounted archery and still has a close connection with the shrine.136 viewsI think he donated something for the shrine's yabusame.
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In the past, police were hired to guard the money pit at Meiji Shrine. They also wore these face protectors to deflect the coins that fall short of the pit.135 views
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Her arm guard bears her family crest and the sleeve's cuff has a dragonfly that is an auspicious symbol for courage and never retreating or running away. (Dragonflies don't fly backwards.)135 views
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Meiji Shrine on New Year's Day133 views
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Her formal yabusame kimono (yoroi hitatare 鎧直垂) is light blue. Her left side is covered with a black arm guard (igote 射籠手) to make it easier to shoot the arrow. 133 viewsOn her left side, she also wears a tachi sword and the shorter dagger (maezashi 前差し). Right above her forearm, you can see a coil of spare bow string (tsurumaki 弦巻).
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This is Matayoshi Akemi (又吉あけ美). Her long, black hair made her stand out as "A woman archer!" as many exclaimed. They had seven horses that are specially trained for yabusame. Each one has a name. The arrows have blunt wooden tips.132 views
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Delighted to see a few women archers at Meiji Shrine yabusame horseback archery on Nov. 3.131 views
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Lots of coins that fell short of Meiji Shrine's money pit. People no longer throw money from so far away. They wait until they get to the front.129 views
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Kagoshima Goodwill Ambassadors in Shibuya, Tokyo126 views
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There's a 210-meter straight horse track within the shrine's spacious grounds. The track has three targets and each horseback archer gallops at full speed and tries to hit each target with an arrow.126 views
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Yabusame is a centuries-old Shinto ceremony to pray for peace in the land and rich harvests. The mounted archery is preceded by a Shinto prayer ceremony. 124 viewsIt originated with samurai who had to be skillful mounted archers in medieval battles before guns were introduced.
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People behind me on New Year's Day at Meiji Shrine.122 views
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Meiji Shrine is also popular for holding weddings. On weekends, you can see several couples passing through.104 views
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At Meiji Shrine, a wedding couple is led by a Shinto priests and two shrine maidens.104 views
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Meiji Shrine's torii.102 views
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Two wedded tree trunks (楠) coupled by a sacred rope at Meiji Shrine.101 views
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Meiji Shrine's main worship hall. If you look closely at the wooden pillars, you can see numerous little cuts in the wood made by people throwing coins at the shrine during New Year's.97 views
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Yoyogi Park with huge crowds of flower viewers86 views
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The Shibuya Kagoshima Ohara Festival is a Kagoshima dance parade held annually near Shibuya Station in Tokyo in May. About 2,200 dancers in 63 troupes dance along the Dogenzaka and Bunkamura-dori main roads for almost 3 hours from 1:20 pm to 4 pm.79 views
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My gang enjoying the blossoms.73 views
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Amulets, charms, talisman73 views
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Gingko trees along the fringe of the park near Yoyogi Koen Station in autumn.72 views
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See my 29-min. video of the Shibuya Kagoshima Ohara Festival in 2014.69 views
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Most of the dance troupe were Tokyo-based with members having ties to Kagoshima.66 views
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They danced to two songs played repeatedly. One was Kagoshima Ohara-bushi おはら節, Kagoshima Prefecture's most famous folk song.65 viewsThe song rambles on about things and scenes in Kagoshima like the Sakurajima volcano.
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Taiko drummers kicked off the festival.64 views
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They were very good.64 views
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CLosing and awards ceremony in front of 109.64 views
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During the intermission at 2:25 pm, lively performances by young dancers were held in front of the 109 building. Young Dance Troupe (from Kagoshima) ヤング踊り連63 views
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They also performed to Tokyo Ohara TOKYOオハラ and Chesuto! Ohara チェスト！おはら.63 views
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The intersection in front of the 109 building was the main area.62 views
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Every once in a while, they stopped dancing for 2 min. to allow people to cross the street.62 views
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Some troupes came all the way from Kagoshima.62 views
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These photos were taken on May 18, 2014. Kagoshima is the southernmost prefecture in Kyushu.61 views
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Poster girl61 views
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The second troupe to perform was the Baton Association of Universities in Tokyo 東京都大学バトン連盟.61 views
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They were also very good.61 views
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Tokunoshima is famous for bullfighting.61 views
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Meiji Shrine or Meiji Jingu is Tokyo largest and most important Shinto shrine. Dedicated to Emperor Meiji (1852–1912) and Empress Shoken (1849–1914). The most popular shrine during New Year's in Tokyo. It also holds a variety of seasonal events.61 views
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Map of Yoyogi Park.60 views
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Opening ceremony included speeches by politicians.60 views
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Okame60 views
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Yoyogi-Koen Station platform on the Chiyoda Line subway has a nice leafy motif. This is the nearest station to Yoyogi Park.59 views
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What impressed me the most about Yoyogi Park was not the cherry blossoms. It was the long lines of people waiting outside these log cabins.59 views
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Dancers started to assemble on the street by 12:30 pm.59 views
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Tokyo Fire Dept. Brass Band59 views
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The other song was, Shibuya Ondo 渋谷音頭 which mentions sights like Hachiko and Dogenzaka. One of Shibuya's official songs.59 views
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Yoyogi Park is one of the more popular parks for hanami flower-viewing picnics in late March-early April in Tokyo.58 views
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The dance parade was held on Dogenzaka and Bunkamura-dori roads.58 views
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Tokunoshima58 views
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Halloween costumers and cosplayers of all kinds gathered in Shibuya on on Oct. 31, 2016. 58 viewsHalloween in Japan is fast becoming a major seasonal/commercial event, on par with Valentine's Day. Halloween merchandise has been taking off in Japan.
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Outside Shibuya Station, they had this tent selling Kagoshima goods and giving out free festival pamphlets.57 views
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Go left.57 views
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P.A. booth56 views
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Ema prayer tablets.56 views
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Ironically, nobody said "trick or treat" and I didn't see anyone giving out Halloween candy. (No one carried candy bags either.) 56 viewsJapan invents its own Halloween (and Valentine's Day).
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It's crowded under them trees, and pretty noisy.53 views
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No, they are standing in line to use the public toilets. Funny thing was the men's line was just as long as the women's line. But I'm sure the men's line progressed faster. It must've taken an hour to get to the toilet.53 views
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Second torii53 views
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Where you wash/purify yourself. Temizuya53 views
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Are they standing in line to buy tickets for an outdoor rock concert in the park?52 views
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Meiji Shrine is one of Tokyo's major sights. Cross the Bridge over the train tracks.52 views
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The torii gate for Meiji Shrine.52 views
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Turn left and see another torii.52 views
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Along here, you may see some outdoor panel displays.52 views
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The main worship hall is flanked by these two large trees.52 views
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Wedding couple on their way to their ceremony inside the shrine.52 views
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Main worship hall in front and a large offering pit where you throw money, etc.52 views
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JR Harajuku Station will soon be replaced by a new building.51 views
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Meiji Shrine is in a large wooded, park-like area. A wide walking path leads to the shrine. It can be dusty due to the gravel.51 views
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Meiji Shrine's forest was man-made, not natural.51 views
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Across the barrels of wine are barrels of sake rice wine.51 views
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Sake rice wine.51 views
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Where you wash/purify yourself. Temizuya51 views
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You can buy a prayer tablet and write your wish/hope/prayer on it and hang it here.51 views
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On the left, there is a gate where you can exit and go to the shrine's park area.51 views
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Crowd control and Meiji Shrine.51 views
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Phone booth51 views
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Yoyogi Park's pond and fountain.50 views
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Meiji Shrine torii50 views
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Barrels of French wine offered to the Meiji Shrine because the Meiji Emperor liked wine.50 views
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Last torii before the main shrine.50 views
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Shinmon Gate 神門50 views
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Shrine maidens (miko)50 views
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In June, iris garden at Meiji Shrine.50 views
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Lots of sexy costumes too.50 views
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Harajuku Station49 views
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The left tree is actually a couple.49 views
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The right tree provides shade for many ema prayer tablets.49 views
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