The first shrine was built on this site in 1478 but the present site dates from 1659, although destroyed as was much of Tokyo in WWII bombings it was rebuilt in 1967.
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- Traditional Houses and Cherry Blossom
- Cablecar to Crater
- Lake Ashi
- Hakone
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- Owakudani
- A rickshaw driver
- Temple Procession
- Geisha
- What does the future hold?
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- 5 storey Pagoda in Senso Temple
- A traditional tea house
- National Diet Building
- Tsukiji Central Fish Market, Tokyo
- Sushi breakfast
- A colourful marketplace
- Shell Fish
- Fish Filleting
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- A side of Tuna
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- Fish Tails
- SOLD
- Tuna Auction
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- Very early start
- A traditional Japanese style home
- Gate of Imperial Palace
- National Theatre
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- Cool Dude
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- Harajuku girls
- Gate to Hie Shrine
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- Whatever you've heard about Japanese loos...
- Tokyo at my feet!
- View of the Tokyo from Shinjuku
- First buy a ticket...
- Next stop... Tokyo
- Leaving Cairns for the Barrier Reef
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- Michaelmas Cay
- Preparing to snorkel
- So well you may laugh, I did too.
- Fish feeding
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- more coral
- Purple Coral
- Returning to Cairns
- Land ahoy!
- Here we come!
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- Foaming Fury
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- A wombat
- Guilty
- A kookaburra
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- Red Panda
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- A national icon..
- A Cassowary
- I have a comb made of horn
- oh what big feet!
- Cairns
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