A shrine on every corner
...and every corner has it's shrine.
Our first full day in Japan was a stunning success. Apart from aching feet we sustained no injuries.
We met a guy from each of Singapore, Malaysia, France, and Sweden (This lady who is doing the home-stay has a sizable house and is renting a lot of rooms out.)
We walked up to Shimo Daigo-ji temple, and then to numerous other smaller temples and shrines. As we walked down the road we would discover small Shinto and Buddhist shrines all over the place. We saw small unlabeled walking paths all over the city which ended in shrine after shrine. One place in particular we found what looked like a graveyard of idols (It looks as if some construction crew gathered all of the stone idols in a complex of shrines and piled them up outside of the place where they were constructing a complex of buildings.)
Shimo Daigo-ji was beautiful. We spent the better part of a day there. There were still some cherry blossoms hanging on the trees, but they had mostly fallen off.
There was an amazing lake with koi, a temple near it, a water feature up above and waterfalls in between. Very picturesque.
We got hungry eventually and wandered around the city, looking for a place to eat. We found a place that sold bento boxes and we ordered one. It was tasty.
We also found a Japanese red bean filled pastry, A
doughnut stuffed with cabbage and carrots, and a pastry stuffed with mashed potatoes, cream cheese and some unidentifiable green stuff, and some candies made out of sweet potatoes. All were tasty.
The whole time we were ambling about I would buy various beverages from the multitude of vending machines that dotted the landscape. There were at least 5 or 6 every hundred yards. Sometimes one store would have 5 or six right in front of it.
We also found special outdoor tables (which were at every tourist attraction) which people sat on instead of eating off of.
Japanese advertisements proved to be strange at times. I didn't know with some of them what I was supposed to be wanting to buy.
Finally, exhausted we went home. Early today an earthquake hit...
Dun Dun Dun!
Our first full day in Japan was a stunning success. Apart from aching feet we sustained no injuries.
We met a guy from each of Singapore, Malaysia, France, and Sweden (This lady who is doing the home-stay has a sizable house and is renting a lot of rooms out.)
We walked up to Shimo Daigo-ji temple, and then to numerous other smaller temples and shrines. As we walked down the road we would discover small Shinto and Buddhist shrines all over the place. We saw small unlabeled walking paths all over the city which ended in shrine after shrine. One place in particular we found what looked like a graveyard of idols (It looks as if some construction crew gathered all of the stone idols in a complex of shrines and piled them up outside of the place where they were constructing a complex of buildings.)
Shimo Daigo-ji was beautiful. We spent the better part of a day there. There were still some cherry blossoms hanging on the trees, but they had mostly fallen off.
There was an amazing lake with koi, a temple near it, a water feature up above and waterfalls in between. Very picturesque.
We got hungry eventually and wandered around the city, looking for a place to eat. We found a place that sold bento boxes and we ordered one. It was tasty.
We also found a Japanese red bean filled pastry, A
doughnut stuffed with cabbage and carrots, and a pastry stuffed with mashed potatoes, cream cheese and some unidentifiable green stuff, and some candies made out of sweet potatoes. All were tasty.
The whole time we were ambling about I would buy various beverages from the multitude of vending machines that dotted the landscape. There were at least 5 or 6 every hundred yards. Sometimes one store would have 5 or six right in front of it.
We also found special outdoor tables (which were at every tourist attraction) which people sat on instead of eating off of.
Japanese advertisements proved to be strange at times. I didn't know with some of them what I was supposed to be wanting to buy.Finally, exhausted we went home. Early today an earthquake hit...
Dun Dun Dun!
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