Person walking down grand stone staircase beneath ornate wall clock in Japan

Photo: Alpgiray Kelem · Japan · 2026-06-11 · Editorial use

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Tokyo, Japan - June 11, 2026: A person in a long black skirt and a gray top walks down a wide stone staircase inside a historic building in Japan. The stairs climb toward tall carved wooden doors set in a wall of polished gray marble panels. Above the doors hangs a large round clock framed by an ornate metal star of scrolls and leaves. Lamps with tall glass shades stand on the newel posts at the top of the stairs, and a lit lantern with pierced metalwork fills the left foreground. Stone balustrades with decorative grilles line both sides of the staircase beneath a coffered ceiling.

• Architecture
• Afternoon
• Balustrade
• Ceiling
• Circle
• Clock
• Door
• East Asia
• Electric Lamp
• Glass
• Glowing
• Gray Color
• Historic Building
• Japan
• Japanese Culture
• Lantern
• Low Angle View
• Marble
• Metalwork
• Moving Down
• Old-fashioned
• Ornate
• Selective Focus
• Skirt