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Kyoto Station

June 7, 2013 by · Comments Off on Kyoto Station 

Kyoto Station, Kyoto Station (???, Kyoto-eki?) is a major railway station and transportation hub in Kyoto, Japan. It has Japan’s second-largest station building (after Nagoya Station) and is one of the country’s largest buildings, incorporating a shopping mall, hotel, movie theater, Isetan department store, and several local government facilities under one 15-story roof. It also housed the Kyoto City Air Terminal until August 31, 2002.

The governmental railway from Kobe reached Kyoto on September 5, 1876, but the station was under construction and a temporary facility called Omiya-dori (Omiya Street) Temporary Station was used until the opening of the main station. The first Kyoto Station opened for service by decree of Emperor Meiji on February 5, 1877.

In 1889, the railway became a part of the trunk line to Tokyo (Tokaido Main Line). Subsequently the station became the terminal of two private railways, Nara Railway (1895, present-day Nara Line) and Kyoto Railway (1897, present-day Sagano Line), that connected the station with southern and northern regions of Kyoto Prefecture, respectively.

Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto

April 11, 2012 by · Comments Off on Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto 

Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto, Fushimi Inari Taisha is the head shrine of Inari, located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The shrine sits at the base of a mountain also named Inari, and includes trails up the mountain to many smaller shrines.

Since in early Japan Inari was seen as the patron of business, each of the Torii is donated by a Japanese business. First and foremost though, Inari is the god of rice.

Merchants and manufacturers worship Inari for wealth. Donated torii lining footpaths are part of the scenic view.

This popular shrine is said to have as many as 32,000 sub-shrines throughout Japan.

Kyoto, Japan

February 10, 2012 by · Comments Off on Kyoto, Japan 

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