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See the Edison memorial at Iwashimizu Hachimangū

Edison's bulbs ran on this bamboo

Iwashimizu Hachiman-gu

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A shrine memorial to Thomas Edison, whose commercial bulbs used bamboo from this mountain for their filaments, reportedly averaging over 1,000 hours.

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