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Day Trip from Kyoto to Amanohashidate, One of Japan's Three Views
Last updated August 26, 2026
For a thousand years, poets have ranked it among Japan's three finest views, and generations of visitors have insisted on seeing it upside down, bent double, staring at the sky through their own legs.
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