Kyoto, Japan 1946

The following photographs were taken in and around Kyoto, Japan, in 1946. It was clear that my father and his companions visited a number of locations that were within a reasonable travelling distance of Hiroshima and Miyajima Island. The first is old Kyoto railway station (now very different):

The next two are of the famous Higashi Honganji buddhist temple in Kyoto built in 1895 after a fire burned down the previous temple.It has changed very little since 1946.

And finally there is a picture of a policeman standing outside the gates of Kyoto castle.