Entrance to Fair Japan -- The Nikko Gate

Besides all of it's displays in several of the exhibit palaces, Japan had an interesting play-house and restaurant on the Pike, which showed the richer side of Japanese life. There were some pretty tea houses and gardens with lakes and lagoons, a Japanese theater and restaurant. Storks waded in the waterways lined with many kinds of beautiful flowers, ferns and mosses. Forty pretty Japanese Geisha girls helped to entertain visitors with music, song and dance. Tea was served in dainty cups and the bright side of life in the Flowery Kingdom was brought to view. This wonderful nation in the Far East was seen at the World's Fair in all it's ways and lights, and the more it was seen, the science, skill and progress of Japan was admired by all. When entering Fair Japan one passed through the brilliant and lofty Nikko gate, which was a replica of the entrance to the Nikko temple, 80 miles from Tokyo. The visitors found themselves on a typical street of Tokyo. Bazaars were on every side where one could buy fans, flags, works of art and a thousand things that the Japanese made.


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