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drplokta ([personal profile] drplokta) wrote2007-08-27 05:41 pm

Today's Photos

Here's the Ginza by night. We were staying about two blocks from here.

Ginza by Night


And a bunch from the tour of the Tokyo Imperial Palace grounds this morning.

A seventeenth century keep/watch-tower (from the roof of which one can see Mt Fuji).

Fujimi-Yagura Keep

Fujimi-Yagura Keep


Our guide, with loudhailer.

Guide at the Imperial Palace


A sculpture representing a pine tree, outside the main palace complex.

Sculpture outside the Imperial Palace


A carefully sculpted tree.

Tree by Seimon-Tetsubashi Bridge


Me, reflected in a palace window.

Me reflected in the Imperial Palace


A lotus blossom in a moat (which is entirely choked with lotus).

Hasuikebori Lotus Moat


No photos of the main palace complex because it was built in the '60s from reinforced concrete.

[identity profile] stillcarl.livejournal.com 2007-08-27 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
Hee: I got a Hold your clicks a moment please... Flickr has the hiccups. We're looking into the problem right now. when I clicked through to Flickr. Your thumbnails were showing here fine though. (Hmmm, and Flickr's back now.)

I like that sculptured tree. There's more around the Keep too.