A wedding at a temple

Sayonara Tokyo

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June 12th 2007
Ian... We’ve only been lost the once since we’ve been here and neither of us have figured out exactly how it happened - something to do with turning right instead of left at some point. We were trying to be clever and take a shortcut from our place of dinner to our intended drinking hole using nothing but a tiny map that we’d got from the hotel. It happened quite late at night, so alcoh ... read more

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In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more