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Chiba. Chiba Prefecture. I believe this depicts a sterna albifrons or little tern. Official bird of Chiba. |
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Chiba. Home of Chiba Look. A very rock 'n' roll livehouse. |
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Chiba. Featuring the shoe of Nagai Yumi. And of Bogie. The Bogie. The 50 Kaitenz' Bogie. This shoe "...no saizu wa nijuurokutengo!!" |
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Chiba. Small version. Terns on top. |
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Chiba. Home of Tokyo Disneyland. I mosh but I'm not that masochistic. Just how cool is this shot? Heaps of character. |
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Chiba. Which I first heard about by reading "Neuromancer". Could I be any more of a geek? From now on I'm the Mother of Sewerpunk. |
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Dazaifu. Fukuoka Prefecture. Taken at Dazaifu Tenmangu, a shrine dedicated to Sugawara No Michizane (845-903), a Heian period politician and scholar. |
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Dazaifu. Fukuoka Prefecture. Apparently Sugawara No Michizane was unfairly banished from the imperial court in Kyoto and died, as a result, not long after arriving in Kyushu. After his death a plague and series of natural disasters led people to believe that he had left behind a peeved and powerful spirit. They deified him as Tenjin-sama, god of scholarship, and built shrines to appease him. |
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Dazaifu. Fukuoka Prefecture. Apparently Tenjin-sama was all about plum trees and the one immediately to the right of the main building of the shrine, according to legend, flew down from Kyoto to be with him. Petal-power. |
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Dazaifu. Fukuoka Prefecture. Because he was all about plums Dazaifu Tenmangu is aswarm with them and very pretty it is when they're blooming. And of course they're all over the manhole covers too. Other notable thing about the area...mochi cakes filled with a mixture of anko and plum jam. Reeeeeeeeeally nice. Best fresh-baked and hot but watch out for the jam. They sell them near the shrine. |
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Dorogawa. Nara Prefecture. This one was close to a groovy limestone cave that you go up to on a "monorail" which is like a cross between a ride-on lawnmower and a carnival ride. It pretty much takes you up a mountainside at a ninety degree angle! And down again, backwards. They make you wear a hard hat but that's actually for the cave and I recommend you accept it unless you're only 3 feet tall. |
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Fukuchiyama. Kyoto Prefecture. |
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Fukuchiyama. I think the splash of bird-poop highlights this one nicely. |
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Fukuoka. Fukuoka Prefecture. F-City, F-Prefecture. Fukuoka is also known as Hakata, and that's where the shinks go, which is relevant if you're shinking and not tossing and turning on a kousoku bus instead. |
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Fukuoka. This one is on the street outside Drum Be-1 in Tenjin. I wonder if the one yen coin is still there. Forgot to check last time. |
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Fukuoka. Featuring the battered lower edge of what has to be the most boro-boro "Rock n Roll Jigoku Tour" t-shirt in existence. My favourite of Danny's designs and conveniently, being red, doesn't show orange sweat. |
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Fuse. Osaka Prefecture. |
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Fuse. |
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Fuse. Apart from the floral ones most of Fuse's groundware is related to the theme of "Higashi Osaka - Rugby Town". I approve. |
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Fuse. |
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Fuse. |
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Fuse. |
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Futsukaichi. Fukuoka Prefecture. Nice place, not far from Dazaifu. Went there to use the onsen. After a very sweaty gig in Okayama, followed by a night on a bus and a day sightseeing and knowing I was going to be going to another sweaty gig that night followed by another night on a bus it seemed like a good idea to have a jolly good wash. |
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Futsukaichi. Might be a very interesting place but all I know of it is Baden House onsen, the first one I got to walking from the train station. It was most pleasant and had very nice staff. The water was sulphurous though, so I was careful to wash well after bathing as well as before. Nobody at the gig asked "who farted?" so I guess I did an OK job. |
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Futsukaichi. Wisteria, I trow. And some other flower. I'm starting to get tired of the floral ones. I blame Beppu. |