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Hangin’ in the van with our amazing guides from Moor Works. This is a very old Shinto shrine on the island of Miyajima. When the tide comes in, it looks like it’s just floating on the water. W hen we released Forever at the beginning of 2014, one of our goals for the record (something that we felt was a little far-fetched) was to be able to tour Japan. When we were offered a tour there it kind of made our year. We went to nine cities and our experiences ranged from home-cooked meals from Japanese grandmothers to a week’s worth of being completely dazed, watching the sun rise in Tokyo. We saw really old temples with minimalist architecture during the daytime and cities with crazy, psychedelic sprawls of rotating lights and advertising at night. It was the most beautiful, dreamlike thing. We ate the best sushi we’ve ever had at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. culture collide . 39