Archive for the 'Miyajima' CategoryPictures from our September 2007 trip to Miyajima Island, near Hiroshima
Today's post is an essentially-random collection of pictures. A view of Mt. Fuji, taken with my point-n-shoot from the window of a shinkansen (bullet train) traveling at about 250kph. This was from a trip about a year ago to Tokyo to see Kousuke Atari in concert. A point of trivia: I believe the river you [...]
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I've mentioned recently how much I love the natural roofs of many temples and shrines, having noted it in recent posts about the Fushimi Inari Shrine and about the Kiyomizu Temple. The roof above, like the roofs cited in those posts, are made of many layers of thin sheets of what I assume is wood. [...]
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In my previous post on our trip to Miyajima near Hiroshima, Japan, I showed the Itsukushima Shrine's main gate at low tide. This time I have a few pictures of the shrine itself at low tide. The shrine is mostly over piers above water (high tide) or mud (low tide), and I should start of [...]
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As I earlier posted from our trip to Miyajima an island near Hiroshima, Japan, one of the main photographic attractions is the large main gate of the Itsukushima Shrine. It's off the coast in the intertidal zone, so when the tide is in, it's in the water and really pretty. There's a nice daytime shot [...]
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One of the landmarks on Miyajima, Japan, besides the main gate of the Itsukushima Shrine, is a five-story tall pagoda called, unimaginatively enough, "five-storied Pagoda" (In Japanese: 五重塔, gojyuunodou). There are a number of large pagodas on the island, but this particular one is centrally located on relatively high ground, so it gets all the [...]
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More pictures from our short trip to Miyajima Island, Japan two weeks ago. The view above, taken on the ferry ride over, doesn't show much detail, but does show the relative positions of a few landmarks, including the famous main gate of the Itsukushima Shrine almost a mile away, the smaller stone gate for the [...]
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While taking long exposure night shots of Itsukushima Shrine's Gate in Miyajima, the brilliant illumination was turned off, and the area became quite dark. I thought I'd give it a try with the lights off, but as you can see above, my one attempt came out completely dark. Since it was late, I didn't want [...]
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I mentioned in my post about the Kousuke Atari concert in Miyajima that the shrine (Itsukushima Shrine) had a big, famous gate (as many shrines tend to have, including the one near me). After the concert, we walked around a bit taking pictures (actually running into the singer at one point, but that's for a [...]
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After having seen a concert on Sunday night in Miyajima, we stayed overnight and enjoyed the town the next day. Miyajima is a very nice, quaint area that's been popular for tourists for over a thousand years, so I was surprised to find that it was not hyper-commercialized and disgustingly crowded. I'm sure it helped [...]
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The short path on Miyajima Island that fronts the ocean between the Itsukushima Shrine (where we saw Kousuke Atari in concert) and our hotel (Kinsuikan Inn -- 錦水館) was lined with benches and large stone lanterns. Deer run wild over the whole island.
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As I mentioned yesterday, we went to Miyajima on Sunday to see Kousuke Atari (中孝介) in concert at the Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社), a large complex almost completely over the water when the tide is in. In the picture above, which I took the morning after the concert when the tide was out, you can see [...]
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Fumie and I just got back from an overnight trip to Miyajima (宮島, an island near Hiroshima), having seen pop singer Kousuke Atari (中孝介) in concert last night on the grounds of the famous Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社). I say "on the grounds" figuratively, since the entire shine -- first built about 1,400 years ago, but [...]
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