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  • A train travels along train lines after departing Kollupitiya railway station which run parallel to the sea on Marine Drive in Colombo 3 the suburb of Kollupitiya in the capital city of Colombo Sri Lanka.
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  • Self Portrait of documentary photographer Asanka Brendon Ratnayake getting a shave and haircut at a saloon in Slave Island in the capital city of Colombo Sri Lanka.
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  • in the capital city of Colombo Sri Lanka.
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  • A motorcyclist rides past as two Men walk past a white coloured walled mechanic as a man sits on a plastic chair outside of an old building with new apartments in the background on Marine Drive in the capital city of Colombo Sri Lanka.
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  • Colonial style shop fronts line the main street of Slave Island with development of High rise apartments and hotels with being built with cranes .Slave Island is an area which will inevitably become gentrified and developed on Justice Akbar Mawatha in the suburb of Slave Island in the capital city of Colombo Sri Lanka. Many historic buildings in the Slave Island were either demolished or are awaiting to be demolished due to recent high rise development. Despite the architectural and historic value most buildings are not properly maintained and as a result most have become run down. The shophouse-style buildings in Justice Akbar Mawatha which are to be demolished is said to be the place where D.R. Wijewardene, D.S. Senanayake and Oliver Goonetilleke met to discuss the constitutional reforms that led to Sri Lanka’s independence in 1948.
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  • Colonial style shop fronts as tuk tuk trishaws three-wheelers drive along the main road with the new Lotus Tower in the background. Slave Island is an area which will inevitably become gentrified and developed on Justice Akbar Mawatha in the suburb of Slave Island in the capital city of Colombo Sri Lanka. Many historic buildings in the Slave Island were either demolished or are awaiting to be demolished due to recent high rise development. Despite the architectural and historic value most buildings are not properly maintained and as a result most have become run down. The shophouse-style buildings in Justice Akbar Mawatha which are to be demolished is said to be the place where D.R. Wijewardene, D.S. Senanayake and Oliver Goonetilleke met to discuss the constitutional reforms that led to Sri Lanka’s independence in 1948.
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  • Two Men walk past a white coloured walled mechanic as a man sits on a plastic chair outside of an old building with new apartments in the background on Marine Drive in the capital city of Colombo Sri Lanka.
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  • Colonial style shop fronts line the main street of Slave Island with development of High rise apartments and hotels with being built with cranes .Slave Island is an area which will inevitably become gentrified and developed on Justice Akbar Mawatha in the suburb of Slave Island in the capital city of Colombo Sri Lanka. Many historic buildings in the Slave Island were either demolished or are awaiting to be demolished due to recent high rise development. Despite the architectural and historic value most buildings are not properly maintained and as a result most have become run down. The shophouse-style buildings in Justice Akbar Mawatha which are to be demolished is said to be the place where D.R. Wijewardene, D.S. Senanayake and Oliver Goonetilleke met to discuss the constitutional reforms that led to Sri Lanka’s independence in 1948.
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  • Colonial style shop fronts as tuk tuk trishaws three-wheelers drive along the main road with the new Lotus Tower in the background. Slave Island is an area which will inevitably become gentrified and developed on Justice Akbar Mawatha in the suburb of Slave Island in the capital city of Colombo Sri Lanka. Many historic buildings in the Slave Island were either demolished or are awaiting to be demolished due to recent high rise development. Despite the architectural and historic value most buildings are not properly maintained and as a result most have become run down. The shophouse-style buildings in Justice Akbar Mawatha which are to be demolished is said to be the place where D.R. Wijewardene, D.S. Senanayake and Oliver Goonetilleke met to discuss the constitutional reforms that led to Sri Lanka’s independence in 1948.
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  • A train travels along train lines after departing Kollupitiya railway station which run parallel to the sea on Marine Drive in Colombo 3 the suburb of Kollupitiya in the capital city of Colombo Sri Lanka.
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  • A train travels along train lines after departing Kollupitiya railway station which run parallel to the sea on Marine Drive in Colombo 3 the suburb of Kollupitiya in the capital city of Colombo Sri Lanka.
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  • A street scene on Marine Drive two men collect recyclable cardboard and paper out of a corrugated iron shack like building as place it into the back of a truck in the suburb of Kollupitiya in the capital city of Colombo Sri Lanka.
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  • A street scene on Marine Drive two men collect recyclable cardboard and paper out of a corrugated iron shack like building as place it into the back of a truck as a Tuk Tuk trishaw three-wheeler drives past in the suburb of Kollupitiya in the capital city of Colombo Sri Lanka.
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  • A street scene on Marine Drive two men collect recyclable cardboard and paper out of a corrugated iron shack like building as place it into the back of a truck as a Tuk Tuk trishaw three-wheeler drives past in the suburb of Kollupitiya in the capital city of Colombo Sri Lanka.
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  • Punters outside of the front of the world famous and iconic Jazz bar Blue note Tokyo in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo. in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A top down view of a soccer ground lit up at dusk in tokyo surrounded by buildings in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A top down view of a soccer ground lit up at dusk in tokyo surrounded by buildings in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • People running along a path next to the Togu Palace in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Tokyo city skyline lit up, with numerous sky scrapers at night viewed from high in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Tokyo city skyline lit up, with numerous sky scrapers at night viewed from high in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A shed which organises drinks and bottles for vending machines sits between city buildings in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Bamboos in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A porche cayenne parked in a driveway of a stylish  house in Minato in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Street vendors selling puletasi (womens skirts) and lava lava (sarongs) on beach road in the capital of Samoa, Apia
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  • In a street scene in Apia a man stands outside the old Apia flea market while smoking a cigarette in the capital of Samoa, Apia
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  • A sales attendant serves a customer at a budget variety store in the capital of Samoa Apia.
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  • A sales attendant serves a customer at a budget variety store in the capital of Samoa Apia.
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  • Street vendors selling puletasi (womens skirts) and lava lava (sarongs) on beach road in the capital of Samoa, Apia
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  • A turquoise painted building with the Samoan flag flying in the capital of Samoa, Apia
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  • Street vendors selling puletasi (womens skirts) and lava lava (sarongs) on beach road in the capital of Samoa, Apia
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  • A young Samoan woman wearing a flower wreath on her head selling an assortment of good such as t-shirts, toothpaste, wool, toys and sporting goods in an open air street side market on beach road in the capital of Samoa, Apia
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  • A young Samoan man wearing a wide brim hat selling sunglasses on the beach road in the capital of Samoa, Apia
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  • In a street scene in Apia a man stands outside the old Apia flea market while smoking a cigarette in the capital of Samoa, Apia
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  • A samoan busker man plays (strums) his guitar while singing a song with a platic tub for passersby to put money in in the capital of Samoa, Apia
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  • A food van selling lunchtime samoan street food, burgers, sandwhiches in the capital of Samoa. Popular with office workers this caravan
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  • A sales attendant serves a customer at a budget variety store in the capital of Samoa Apia.
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  • Samoan men playing Pool at street side pool hall next to a Taxi Rank. Local pool sharks and taxi drivers play pool here using pool tables of poor condition in the Samoan capital of Apia
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  • A Samoan man selling Taro and coconuts at his stall in the Flea Markets in the Apia the capital of Samoa.
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  • Samoan men playing Pool at street side pool hall next to a Taxi Rank. Local pool sharks and taxi drivers play pool here using pool tables of poor condition in the Samoan capital of Apia
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  • A Samoan man wearing a traditional Samoan shirt and sarong selling Samoan plants at his stall in the Flea Markets in the Apia the capital of Samoa.
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  • Apia and Apia Harbour with beach road and Mount Vaea in the background in the capital of Samoa, Apia on the island of Upolu
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  • A man in a suit rests against a wall as a person dressed in an out there Harajuku style costume with mask, numerous accessories and fluffy shoes looks on takeshita street looks on Harajuku a district in Shibuya in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Men reading Japanese magazine at night at a magazine stand in Shibuya in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • People at the major Shibuya zebra crossing wait for the lights to change before crossing the road  in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A truck on stilts on the side of a major road as a man with a face mask walks past in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A man in traditional Japanese outfit and wooden shoes on his mobile phone smokes a cigarette surrounded by smokers in the designated smoking area in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A black Japanese taxi drives up a hill in the afternoon light in Minato-ku in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Large groups of people cross Shibuya crossing in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A person dressed as a chicken hands out pamphlets near Shibuya crossing in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A Japanese young women with pink hair blue birkenstocks, stockings and bright colour jacket walks down the retail area in Shibuya in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • People cross a pedestrian crossing in Shibuya in the afternoon light in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Two Japanese couriers stand next to their delivery vans in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • The Stella Mc Cartney flagship store opposite the flagship Prada Aoyama tokyo retail shop designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuronin the Capital of Japan, Tokyo. 'Prada Aoyama Tokyo is the first building by Herzog & de Meuron in which the structure, space, and façade form a single unit. The vertical cores, the horizontal tubes, the floor slabs, and the façade grilles define the space but at the same time provide the structure and the facade.'
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  • Modern Japanese architecture  with wooden panel wall in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Close up view of the tokyo tower in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo. Tokyo Tower is a communications and observation tower located in the Shiba-koen district of Minato, Tokyo. It is 332.9 metres high and the 2nd tallest structure in Japan. It is made from steel, a third of which was scrap metal taken from US tanks damaged in the Korean War
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  • A Japanese garden with lake and bridges at the Shinjuku garden in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo. Originally the residence of the Naito family in the Edo period. Afterwards, it became a garden under the management of the Imperial Household Agency of Japan. Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. The garden, which is 58.3 hectares in area with a circumference of 3.5 km, blends three distinct styles: a French Formal and English Landscape in the north and to the south a Japanese traditional. A traditional Japanese tea house can be found within the gardens.
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  • A top down view of a soccer ground lit up at night in tokyo surrounded by buildings in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A Japanese garden with lake and bridges at the Shinjuku garden in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo. Originally the residence of the Naito family in the Edo period. Afterwards, it became a garden under the management of the Imperial Household Agency of Japan. Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden. The garden, which is 58.3 hectares in area with a circumference of 3.5 km, blends three distinct styles: a French Formal and English Landscape in the north and to the south a Japanese traditional. A traditional Japanese tea house can be found within the gardens.
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  • A Japanese woman rides her bicycle in a small lane way in the neighbourhood of Minato in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A taxi driver stands beside his black taxi with the boot open as he uses his phone as he is stuck on a bridge in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A Japanese man riding a green bicycle on a green coloured bridge in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A woman with a blue bag walks past the Stella McCartney flagship store in Tokyo in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A Lamborghini Murcielago and a Harley Davidson wait for Pedestrians in the upmarket area of Ginza in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A woman sleeps in a train carriage in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Street scene meiji dori shibuya The main shopping road in Harajuku. Harajuku a district in Shibuya in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Police officers on patrol at the entrance of Takeshita Street in front of the large sign in Harajuku. Harajuku a district in Shibuya in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A smartly dressed officer in full uniform sweeps rubbish off the streets in front of McDonalds in Shibuya in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Commuters ride a bus covered in fish paintings in Harajuku. Harajuku a district in Shibuya in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A man in a suit rests against a wall as a person dressed in an out there Harajuku style costume with mask, numerous accessories and fluffy shoes looks on takeshita street looks on Harajuku a district in Shibuya in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • People in harajuku Harajuku a district in Shibuya in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Tourists dressed as Mario cart video game characters  jump into a go kart before leaving to do a tour of tokyo in a a mario cart styled go kart in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A carpark attendant in a booth waiting for customers in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Car park attendants in uniform wait for customers to come into the carpark in Shinjuku in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A women in colourful playful dress costume walks along a path in Shinjuku in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • People walk across a pedestrian crossing near an overpass bridge in Minato in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • People walk across a pedestrian crossing near an overpass bridge in Minato in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A black Japanese taxi drives up a hill in the afternoon light in Minato-ku in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A young attractive Japanese woman does her makeup on the train as it departs Shibuya station in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • People at the major Shibuya zebra crossing wait for the lights to change before crossing the road  in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Commuters waiting at a train platform at night at Shubuya Station viewed from a far in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A large crowd walks through one of the main shopping and entertainment strips in Shibuya full of colourful signs and neon lights in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A shop front on takeshita street displaying Harajuku styled fashion dresses and costumes Harajuku a district in Shibuya in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • People cross Shibuya crossing at night in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • People cross Shibuya crossing at night in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A taxi crosses the Shibuya crossing whilst having a passenger driving by an elderly Japanese man in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Taxis in Shibuya wait for customers in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Colourful Shibuya information centre sign in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A Japanese woman on her phone stands between two taxi's in Shibuya in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A smartly dressed officer in full uniform sweeps rubbish off the streets in front of McDonalds in Shibuya in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A smartly dressed officer in full uniform sweeps rubbish off the streets in front of McDonalds in Shibuya in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A large crowd walks through one of the main shopping and entertainment strips in Shibuya full of colourful signs and neon lights in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A large crowd walks through one of the main shopping and entertainment strips in Shibuya full of colourful signs and neon lights in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • An interracial couple holding hands cross Shibuya Crossing in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A Motorbike speeds through Shibuya crossing in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • An apartment housing complex in Minato lit up in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Tokyo tower lit up at night in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Tokyo tower lit up in blue at night in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A carpark attendant in a booth waiting for customers in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • Tokyo Tower lit up in orange at night in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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  • A man takes a photo of tokyo from the tokyo tower as he places his phone against the window in the Capital of Japan, Tokyo.
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