David Stanley
@southpacifictravel
male Nanaimo, BC, Canada
David Stanley has authored numerous travel guidebooks for Lonely Planet and Moon Handbooks. He has seen every country in the world and visited all but one.
The Rinshunkaku Villa (1649) sits at the heart of the Inner Garden of the Sankeien Garden in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The garden was the creation of a wealthy Yokohama silk merchant who brought 17 historic structures here from around Kyoto. 
Newlyweds pose before the Rinshunkaku Villa (1649), the central complex of the Sankeien Garden in southern Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. 
In 1917 the Rinshunkaku Villa (1649) was moved from a site along the Kinokawa River in Wakayama south of Osaka to the Sankeien Garden in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. 
A statue of professional sumo wrestler Yokozuna Kitanoumi (1953-2015) stands at Kawasaki Daishi Temple near Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. 
A gilded Buddha stature overlooks the Crane Pond at the Kawasaki Daishi Temple near Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. 
The spire of the Hakkaku Gojunoto pagoda peaks above the roof of an adjacent building at Kawasaki Daishi Temple near Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. 
The five-storied Hakkaku Gojunoto pagoda (1984) at Kawasaki Daishi Temple near Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, is unique in being octagonal. 
David Stanley ventilates the healing vapors of incense toward himself at Kawasaki Daishi Temple near Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. 
These women are using tandem baby carriages on their visit to Kawasaki Daishi Temple near Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. 
A glittering array of lamps and lanterns hang inside Kawasaki Daishi Temple near Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. 
