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Kyoto 9 Nov 2007
The guide told us that, although several shirnes and temples have been in Kyoto for hundreds of years, as instituitions, very few actual buildings in the city are older than 200-300 years old because of periodic large fires (the most recent in 1885, I believe). He said we would see fire extinuishers and buckets all over time -- there are required by city ordinances. This photo shows one set of buckets that I noticed.
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