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Find the 1874 transit-of-Venus monument at Kinseidai

Where the French watched Venus in 1874

Kinseidai

Photos: Pastern · CC BY-SA 3.0 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Marks the French observation of the transit of Venus on 9 December 1874; its pillars reuse a broken Ikuta Shrine torii.

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