To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Meiji Jingu’s reconstruction the monks with the funk decided to go mental with an enormous lantern display near Harajuku station:
Everyone was desperately trying to take some decent photos:
The flower arranging displays on offer inside the shrine itself were rather lame by comparison:
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