Fushimi-inari-taisha Shrine - phew !!! What a mouthful!!!! Well this was Fran's favourite place of the trip, and we were very pleased we hadn't tried to go here on the Sunday, it would have been just too busy to appreciate the beauty and serenity of the place!
We had to walk up a little hill to get to this Shrine, it is situated on Mt. Inari (hence the name! ow and a quick fact - Inari means the god of rice) and you can walk all the way to the top and there are beautiful shrines and things to see! We only walked up part way of the mountain as we had planned to do and see other things, but You could spend a lovely day walking up and down this mountain, if we had had longer this is definitely what we would have planned to do! When we got to the shrine there were 2 ladies singing and someone playing a piano or some sort we wern't aloud to take photos or video but it was very interesting to see! Again, extremely relaxing.
Now here's what we came to see...!!!!! A walk way of Torii (Gates). Toriis are usually found at the Entrance of a Shinto shrine but these torii cover the mountain outlining the hiking route through the forest! Really quite an amazing site!
When we got to the next shrine we had a play around with my camera and I taught Fran a few things about how to use it! He is really getting the hang of it! I'm really impressed!!!! So here is a Fran Photo!
Great huh!!!!!!
Because we had planned to do other things in the day we had to turn back and catch a train to the next place. We would definitely like to go back through!
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