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Join Date: Jan 2009
03-11-2009, 04:32 AM

Day 2


How did you spend your morning today ?

Bet it wasn't like mine.

Let's take a stroll down the street from my hotel and see what we run into.

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More vending machines

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Can't get over how tiny the high rise is

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Ooooh subway crossing

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Pay phones: Green ones take phone cards and yen and can't make int'l phone calls, Grey ones are pretty much the same except you can make int'l calls on them.

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Bike locking station

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There are a lot of these here

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Subway station

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No clue what/who this is

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Even off the main street are winding alleyways everywhere

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Parking lot meter

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Those awesome cabs, the model is a Cedric

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Hey a park ! Cool lets take a look.

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Wow, was that a red flash of a tail I saw ?

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You can hear the wind rushing through the trees, the crows crying their very distinctive AH'Hs the tone of which is some aking to a bullfrog or Ernie the muppet.

Look ! A kitty

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Then it appears, my jaw drops and the voice in my head says YOU ARE NOW IN JAPAN !!!

My first shinto shrine, it's Meiji Jingu !!!!

First things first purification ritual.

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You take the ladle and first pour water over your left hand, then your right hand. Next pour into your left hand and rinse your mouth lastly rinse your left hand and the ladle, kinda bungled this step. I did it but not the way it should be done.

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Prayers

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No pictures of the temple inside, is forbidden. I was there early enough though that I got to hear and see the taiko drum introduce the priests and watched in awe as they apporached and addressed the ancestors. Absolutely stunning !

Exiting the shrine I hit the the other half of the forest

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Bamboo grove

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Martial arts dojo

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The Treasures Musuem it was closed what do expect at 8:00am.

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Rounding back to where we began

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Koi

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The vechicles can get so cute and tiny

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Yet more vending machines

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Still getting over the jet lag, hopefully it be all over tomorrow.
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