Enjoying the calm of the rock garden at Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto.
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On the right, in front of Kyoto's exquisite Kinkakuji, the Temple of the Golden Pavilion.
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Feeling Coke in front of Osaka Castle on one side while Buddha looks down on me protectively from Nara.
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From a coin-operated photo booth in Fukuoka, sidetracked after taking passport photos.
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Standing in front of the marker at the most northern tip of Japan, the Soya Cape of Hokkaido.
(Russia's Sakhalin Island is visible on the horizon)
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Buried in hot volcanic sand at Ibusuki on the southern tip of Kyushu.
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The only foreigner at the Tottori branch meeting of the Japan Amateur Radio League.
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Operating the special event ham radio station at the 1997 Tottori Expo in Sakaiminato city.
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Tokyo's famous Tsukiji Fish Market, the largest wholesale fish market in the world.
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Along the Japan Alpine Route, the "Big Snow Valley" of Toyama.
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Dwarfed by the massive exterior of gorgeous JR Kanazawa Station.
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Kanazawa Castle.
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A couple shots of smaller-than-life Tobu World Square.
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Checking out the Tokyo Sky Tree, the highest free-standing tower in the world.
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The massive statue at the Nagasaki Peace Park commemorating the atomic bomb blast that destroyed the city in 1945.
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Surveying the ruins on abandoned Gunkanjima, in Nagasaki,
site of the first reinforced concrete building in Japan and inspiration for the apocalyptic city ruins featured in the James Bond movie Skyfall.
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