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Tokyo Imperial Palace 28 Oct 2007
This is the first of three photos taken at various points as we walked partway around the moat for the imperial palace. It appears the palace area used to be much larger. There are several other bodies of water in the area (not included in these photos) that APPEAR to be remnants of what used to be an outer moat (i.e., I suspect the current moat used to be innermost of two moats). Some of these are in the public gardens surrounding the current moat (the one in these photos) and some are in areas now mostly occupied by office buildings (the moat-like bodies of water are between office buildings). It’s also possible that what I took to be parts of an outer moat are actually remnants of canals that are no longer used.
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