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Torii Gate

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

I headed out from Tokyo by train into the mountains.  The Japanese Alps in Winter were a sight to behold.  There was so much snow!  I’ve never seen so much in all my life.  The people were very diligent about clearing it away, though; the public paths were regularly cleared each morning, and people were happily shovelling snow of their roofs (a public requirement).  This picture is of a Japanese Torii Gate – the traditional entrance to a Shinto shrine – in Takayama.  It straddles one end of a bridge marking the entrance into the old centre of town.