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Japanese apartments 1 A mix of the old and the new. |
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Japanese apartments 2 With a car. |
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The shrine With lanterns and a mushroom bearing names. |
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Alley Tokyo is a city of contrasts; the old and the new are everywhere intermixed. |
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Temple entrance I think by the ornate roof and the posts that it is a Buddhist temple and not a Shinto shrine, but I am not certain, sorry. |
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Going in Going back into the temple, or shrine. You can just see the Phœnix in the background. |
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Shrine entrance Costumed people enter the shrine. |
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Outside the temple I think there is a temple at the top of the stairs, and a shrine on the right, but I am foreign and know very little. |
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Going in Will they take the mikoshi? |
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Tabi Black socks. |
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Welcoming the mikoshi 1 The white official is going to wave a green branch over the phœnix and its temple. |
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Welcoming the mikoshi 2 Waving the frond. |
