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Chūreitō pagoda (Mount Fuji lookout point)
Chūreitō is a pagoda built in 1963 as a peace monument honoring Fujiyoshida’s war dead. You’ve got to walk up 400 steps to get here as a reminder that perspective isn’t free. You may see Mount Fuji if it is not covered by clouds.
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Mount Fuji and Lake Kawaguchi
This lake here at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan is well known because on a clear day when there’s no clouds and no wind, you can sometimes see the reflection of Mount Fuji in the water.
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Itoku Inari Shrine in Shinjuku, Tokyo
Here at Itoku Inari Shrine in the middle of Shinjuku. You offer a coin, bow, clap, then make your prayer. The red torii form a narrow tunnel that feels like a portal.
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Shibuya Scramble Crossing: World’s Busiest Crosswalk
Shibuya Scramble Crossing is the busiset crosswalk in the world, with around 1,000 to 2,500 traversing at once.
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Tori no Ichi in Shinjuku: Raking in Good Luck
Here in Tokyo, Japan in the Shinjuku neighborhood it’s Tori no Ichi, which is a festival known in English as the Rooster Market. It happens on the rooster zodiac days. And people come here and they buy ceremonial rakes to rake in the good luck, so to speak. Businessmen treat this as a serious investment…
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Godzilla sighted in Tokyo
Here live in #Tokyo to watch #Godzilla. If you can see behind me, there’s Godzilla on top of a building. And that building is the Toho Co., Ltd. building. That’s the company that made the Godzilla films. We’re just waiting any second for Godzilla to breathe fire. This was made in honor of the 60th…
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Tokyo Black Market District
Hanamichi-dori Street in Tokyo’s Kabukichō neighborhood hosted black markets after World War II, as the Shinjuku Station survived firebombings and let in contraband food and coal in from the countryside. Authorities turned a blind eye as it kept people alive.
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Baščaršija (Sarajevo) – Meaning in Turkish & Persian
Call to prayer and church bells at Sarajevo main market Baščaršija, from Turkish baş ‘head, main’ + çarşı ‘market’ from Persian su ‘direction’ and čār ‘4’, compare Bosnian čètiri, Ukrainian čotýry, Lemko štŷry, Latin quattuor, Sanskrit catur, Ancient Greek téssăres, English four.