New Year's Day on Miyajima - Japan New Year 2010
New Year's Day on Miyajima
Friday 1st January 2010
Visiting Chie's family on Miyajima on New Year's Day.
Japan New Year 2010
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| 12:43:00 Chie and her Dad on the ferry to Miyajima. | 12:43:17 The other ferry. | 12:43:57 Looks sunny doesn't it? It was actually very cold! |
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| 12:44:27 Me and a vending machine. | 12:45:46 First view of the famous umi-no-tori. | 12:45:56 Closer up on the tori. |
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| 12:46:37 | 12:46:46 Quite like this one with a speed boat in the foreground. | 12:47:17 Lots more pictures of the tori... |
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| 12:47:27 Itsukushima Shrine has some snow on the roof here. | 12:47:35 | 12:47:47 |
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| 12:48:00 | 12:48:57 | 12:49:03 |
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| 12:49:17 | 12:49:23 | 12:49:34 |
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| 12:52:36 Looking back towards the mainland. | 12:52:44 | 12:58:25 Chie and her parents outside the ferry port building on Miyajima, with New Year's decorations. |
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| 13:08:37 Chie and the tori. | 13:08:47 Deceptively summery looking picture of the tori! | 13:08:52 That came out rather well. |
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| 13:08:57 | 13:09:33 Me and Chie in front of the tori, a self timer shot. | 13:13:23 The queue to get into the Itsukushima shrine for hatsumode (first visit to a shrine of the New Year) - we decided to skip it this time round! |
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| 13:13:30 | 13:14:17 | 13:14:26 |
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| 13:14:41 | 13:16:42 This is the Senjyokaku ("thousand tatami mat") building just up the hill from the shrine. | 13:17:41 |
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| 13:18:18 Tried to get a picture of the water dripping off the roof - not sure this really worked! | 13:19:42 The pagoda as seen through Senjyokaku. | 13:19:48 |
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| 13:20:13 Chie and the pagoda. | 13:20:30 A few more pagoda pictures... | 13:20:48 |
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| 13:45:26 This sign says "Moriwaki Gasolene" - a petrol station ran by a relative of Chie's. I also rather liked the deer cartoon here. | 14:46:39 At Chie's aunt and uncle's house now. | 14:47:00 Lots of family pictures to follow! |
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| 15:33:42 Some very nice sake... | 16:10:44 | 16:10:52 |
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| 16:11:03 | 16:55:58 | 16:56:17 |
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| 16:56:22 | 16:58:09 Chie's Dad standing on a chair. | 17:03:06 |
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| 17:03:29 | 17:03:38 | 17:03:50 |
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| 18:43:21 There was a rather nice full moon to be seen from the ferry on the way back. | 18:46:42 | 18:46:54 |