For my first exploration in 2021, I visited Tempura Island. Near the landing area is a gorgeous, autumnal forest that filled my heart with the joy of being alive, and able to experience this kind of beauty…

… this is a very beautiful place, a particularly lush, baroque type of beauty…

… there is a palace that manages to be both classical, and slightly brutalist, with vaguely nouveau embellishment…

… it has gorgeous, intimate spaces, lavishly decorated in nouveau/deco style…

… and stunning, huge spaces, in a kind of byzantine/baroque style…

… it’s all very beautiful…

… filled with light that embellishes all the golden tones…

… really magnificent…

… breathtakingly so.