Chapter 1: Southwestern Honshû
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| Leaving a snowy Ishikawa-ken behind | The illustrious Fatty | A shinto shrine in Tsuruga |
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| A look across the bay in Tsuruga | The good ship Fukui-maru, docked in the Tsuruga Harbour | Me posing beside a scale model of Himeji-jô in Himeji Station |
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| A poster telling the 47 Rônin story, located in Ako Station, of course | Ako station, where we spent the coldest night of our lives. Yes, the clock does say 05:17. The posters are advertising Ako's connection with the 47 Rônin incident. | A particularly gaudy fountain in a chikadô in Okayama |
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| A view of Okayama-jô from the base of its walls | Another view of Okayama-jô, this time from a beach on the Kôraku-en island. Yes, those are swan boats in the foreground. | Looking across the pond in Kôraku-en |
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| Another view of the Kôraku-en pond | A bridge leading to a little island in the Kôraku-en pond | Another view of the island in the Kôraku-en pond |
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| Some storks in Kôraku-en | The bridge from Okayama-jô to Kôraku-en | Some variety of flowering tree near Okayama-jô |
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| Peace Park in Hiroshima | Hiroshima-jô | The moat of Hiroshima-jô |
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| The mountains of Miya-jima | The famous torii of Miya-jima. Yes, it is hard to see, but it is just to the left of the centre of the photo. Ganbare! | A little closer to the torii this time |
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| Some of the friendly deer on Miya-jima | They even let you pet them... of course, they just think you are planning to feed them! | This picture needs no caption! |
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| The Hiroshima waterfront | Some starfish on the seawall on Miya-jima | A much closer look at the torii on Miya-jima |
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| Me in front of the Miya-jima torii | That is my face inside the little fireman's head | A large pagoda on Miya-jima |
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| A deer couple catching some rays on Miya-jima | Our ferry pulls away from Miya-jima | Me going John Woo style in an arcade in Shimonoseki |
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| The Shimonoseki harbour | Two marine high school ships, docked in the Shimonoseki harbour | Ramen Daigaku (Ramen University), a slightly pretentious ramen-ya in Shimonoseki |
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| Some traffic in downtown Shimonoseki | A very red shrine, called, in fact called Akama-jingû, which means something like "red centre shrine" | The bridge to Kita-Kyûshû |
