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| However unsavoury this might look, yakisoba sandwich was a true winner imo. |
Another "surprise grab" breakfast from 7-11, and then we set off for some cultural and historical enlightenment. Off to Harajuku to visit the Meiji-Jingumae Shrine!
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| Sake barrels annually donated to the shrine as an offering. |
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| Wash your hands in the icy January water before going in! |
The weather was, again, wonderful, and we headed along the long path to the shrine with clear blue skies and bright, lukewarm winter sun overhead. What with it still being the first couple of weeks of 2015, there were a lot of visitors dropping by to make their wishes and prayers for the new year.
It was certainly very busy! I think actually there was a special event going on, as there were quite a large number of girls wearing kimono and
furisode posing for photos. (EDIT: I've found out that by some stroke of luck we happened to visit on Coming of Age Day, which is a bit like a nationwide birthday for all of the people that turned 20 that year, the legal age in Japan)
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| Creepy sneak photo of a girl walking past in her furisode. |
