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Lydia Leftcoast

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3. And in Kyoto...
Wed May 9, 2012, 04:52 PM
May 2012


This station was built in 1997. Note the escalator.

I hadn't been to Kyoto since 1991, when the old, grubby station still existed. Coming back in 2000, I was astounded at the new station, which has a department store, a luxury hotel, and an underground shopping and restaurant arcade. This picture appears to have been taken from a mezzanine that has restaurants and snack bars.
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