Japan, October 2004


Tour index
Tokyo
Kyoto & festivals
Hiroshima & Miyajima
Hakata/Fukuoka & Nagasaki
Okayama & Kurashiki
Tottori, Higashi-hama & Matsue
Kobe
Osaka

Miyajima

(October 24)

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Pagodas. Any tourist trip to Japan is guaranteed to include a fair few temples, shrines, and pagodas. Three storey pagodas being the norm, and five-storey pagodas the rarity, and people are rightly proud of them. But the trouble is that the tourist centres of Japan tend to correlate with the locations of five-storey pagodas, and they tend to become "just another five-storey pagoda". Sad but true.

So here's a two-storey one, "Tahoto".

Miy