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shared by takezzo on 2008-12-06We spent our 1st wedding anniversary on the island called "Naoshima." It was just a small island in Setonai-kai inland sea near Takamatsu, until Benesse Corporation built their museum/hotel facility and invited worldly famous artists to participate their projects on the island. Now, the island is well known for its very conceptual gallery museum and open-air art house project.
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shared by wil6ka on 2008-02-10Nara is one of the old capitals of the Japanese empire. And a special one. There are many mysterious traditions lingering around the Japanese Island like this one: Due to Shinto-Tradition every time an emperor died the capital had to be changed, hence death was sticking to the old royal walls. This is kind of funny because Japan isn’t such a massive continent were you can randomly chose a town to be the main city: With the uprising of Buddhism this supersticion lost its grip and in 710 Nara was declared the first real capital of Japan. Some of the historic sites are still alive and kicking in Nara and eight of them met the UNESCO world heritage criteria in 1998, which makes this little town one of the must-see destinations. There is one place, though, which really will rock your world in Nara: Nara-Koen. This giant Park takes up a large part of the whole city and was created in 1880 on top of wasteland. Nonetheless it is home to many historic temples and religious sites. The thing that is most striking about the park is, that it is inhabited by deer. More than 1200 deers live their lives on the greens, the stones and streets of the park. It is an awkward encounter, when one is entering the park and the animals are next to you and you are the visitor. There are no fences and borders, you just have to get along. In Shinto-times deers were said to be gods and that is the origin of the whole thing: And hey, if they have rat-temples in India, they can surely build a big living room for these fellows: For 150 yen you can buy special deer-biscuits and feed them to the furries. And you better them, because they know the game and demand the payment for the spectacle. Watch out for the little ones, because some of the mean deer like to stub children in the sand, just because it is fun for them. Which creates some even bigger spectacle, when mean parents are keen on mean deer
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shared by wil6ka on 2008-06-05such a country of countries and just made for lomography.
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shared by wil6ka on 2008-03-09Nara is one of the old capitals of the Japanese empire. And a special one. There are many mysterious traditions lingering around the Japanese Island like this one: Due to Shinto-Tradition every time an emperor died the capital had to be changed, hence death was sticking to the old royal walls. This is kind of funny because Japan isn’t such a massive continent were you can randomly chose a town to be the main city: With the uprising of Buddhism this supersticion lost its grip and in 710 Nara was declared the first real capital of Japan. Some of the historic sites are still alive and kicking in Nara and eight of them met the UNESCO world heritage criteria in 1998, which makes this little town one of the must-see destinations. There is one place, though, which really will rock your world in Nara: Nara-Koen. This giant Park takes up a large part of the whole city and was created in 1880 on top of wasteland. Nonetheless it is home to many historic temples and religious sites. The thing that is most striking about the park is, that it is inhabited by deer. More than 1200 deers live their lives on the greens, the stones and streets of the park. It is an awkward encounter, when one is entering the park and the animals are next to you and you are the visitor. There are no fences and borders, you just have to get along. In Shinto-times deers were said to be gods and that is the origin of the whole thing: And hey, if they have rat-temples in India, they can surely build a big living room for these fellows: For 150 yen you can buy special deer-biscuits and feed them to the furries. And you better them, because they know the game and demand the payment for the spectacle. Watch out for the little ones, because some of the mean deer like to stub children in the sand, just because it is fun for them. Which creates some even bigger spectacle, when mean parents are keen on mean deer
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shared by wil6ka on 2008-03-09Nara is one of the old capitals of the Japanese empire. And a special one. There are many mysterious traditions lingering around the Japanese Island like this one: Due to Shinto-Tradition every time an emperor died the capital had to be changed, hence death was sticking to the old royal walls. This is kind of funny because Japan isn’t such a massive continent were you can randomly chose a town to be the main city: With the uprising of Buddhism this supersticion lost its grip and in 710 Nara was declared the first real capital of Japan. Some of the historic sites are still alive and kicking in Nara and eight of them met the UNESCO world heritage criteria in 1998, which makes this little town one of the must-see destinations. There is one place, though, which really will rock your world in Nara: Nara-Koen. This giant Park takes up a large part of the whole city and was created in 1880 on top of wasteland. Nonetheless it is home to many historic temples and religious sites. The thing that is most striking about the park is, that it is inhabited by deer. More than 1200 deers live their lives on the greens, the stones and streets of the park. It is an awkward encounter, when one is entering the park and the animals are next to you and you are the visitor. There are no fences and borders, you just have to get along. In Shinto-times deers were said to be gods and that is the origin of the whole thing: And hey, if they have rat-temples in India, they can surely build a big living room for these fellows: For 150 yen you can buy special deer-biscuits and feed them to the furries. And you better them, because they know the game and demand the payment for the spectacle. Watch out for the little ones, because some of the mean deer like to stub children in the sand, just because it is fun for them. Which creates some even bigger spectacle, when mean parents are keen on mean deer
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shared by wil6ka on 2008-04-22Nara is one of the old capitals of the Japanese empire. And a special one. There are many mysterious traditions lingering around the Japanese Island like this one: Due to Shinto-Tradition every time an emperor died the capital had to be changed, hence death was sticking to the old royal walls. This is kind of funny because Japan isn’t such a massive continent were you can randomly chose a town to be the main city: With the uprising of Buddhism this supersticion lost its grip and in 710 Nara was declared the first real capital of Japan. Some of the historic sites are still alive and kicking in Nara and eight of them met the UNESCO world heritage criteria in 1998, which makes this little town one of the must-see destinations. There is one place, though, which really will rock your world in Nara: Nara-Koen. This giant Park takes up a large part of the whole city and was created in 1880 on top of wasteland. Nonetheless it is home to many historic temples and religious sites. The thing that is most striking about the park is, that it is inhabited by deer. More than 1200 deers live their lives on the greens, the stones and streets of the park. It is an awkward encounter, when one is entering the park and the animals are next to you and you are the visitor. There are no fences and borders, you just have to get along. In Shinto-times deers were said to be gods and that is the origin of the whole thing: And hey, if they have rat-temples in India, they can surely build a big living room for these fellows: For 150 yen you can buy special deer-biscuits and feed them to the furries. And you better them, because they know the game and demand the payment for the spectacle. Watch out for the little ones, because some of the mean deer like to stub children in the sand, just because it is fun for them. Which creates some even bigger spectacle, when mean parents are keen on mean deer
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Ebisu Garden Place
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