JAPAN.

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Souvenir album presented by the Japanese Government Railways. A delightful souvenir album commemorating the visit of some Western guests to Japan at the invitation of the state railway, including views of the country's rapidly developing mass transport infrastructure and the tourist locations it served.While the identities of members of the touring party are unknown, many of the locations they visited can be readily discerned. The album pictures the railway line near Mount Fuji, Tokyo train station, the Toshogu Shrine at Nikko, and the Kegon Falls. One photograph shows the party learning out of the windows of a first-class carriage, while in another they pose outside the famous Fujiya Hotel run by H. S. K. Shozo Yamaguchi (1882-1944).A loosely inserted photograph of the Kegon Falls is inscribed and dated 18 May 1928 on the verso.

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