Showing posts with label temples. Show all posts
Showing posts with label temples. Show all posts

Monday, July 23, 2012

Still Lost

Second day in Tokyo. This is mostly Asakusa and a small, kind of decrepit amusement park near Asakusa.
Definitely felt like Japan here.
This is the amusement park, I think it was the one shown briefly in Enter the Void. I would recommend a visit here while in Tokyo. There are these weird animatronic pandas you can ride, a surprisingly scary Ghost Mansion, and let me just say the Surprise House is indeed, very surprising.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Super Frog Saves Tokyo

Pedestrian overpasses seem to be quite popular in Tokyo. Makes for good centered photos of the streets, which I was really attracted to. For whatever reason, the first thing that really made me feel like I was in Tokyo were the characters painted on the street.

Our first day consisted of wandering around a neighborhood Meguro near where my sister teaches. We went to a few temples and shrines, unfortunately, I have no idea what any of them were called. At that point, I was still in shocked and awed mode.

This guy I believe is named Daruma. I believe he is a Shinto god of some sorts, but I am really not sure about that.

These are prayer cards you can buy at a lot of temples. You write your prayers on the back side of them and then hang them up for the gods to read. Very beautiful. I brought a few home.

A lot of the shrines and temples had these beautiful strings of origami hanging behind statues. Really amazing.

This is a massive wedding chapel. It had a beautiful outdoor area with waterfalls and coy fish. Also, hands down the nicest bathroom I've been in. It was like Disney world in there.

Scenes from around Meguro/Nakameguro.

Title: Haruki Murakami short story