Desserts

The Photography Museum & on to Beijing

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April 24th 2008
Another beautiful day in Tokyo. We packed up, checked out and headed to the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. The subway ride was easy, but when we arrived in Ebisu, there were no signs so finding the museum involved asking 5 or 6 people for directions. Many of them had a hard time and kept turning the map around and around which was weird. Photography is a much bigger deal in Japan th ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more