After leaving Temple #1 and heading for #3, we found some very interesting things along the way. This first picture was at the entrance to a company parking lot. I think it is the biggest bowling pin I have ever seen.
After we got by the pin and turned around to look at it, we discovered that it was the sign for the company, a maker of advertising signs, of course.We also found this sign which points the way to Temple #2 and states that the temple is part of the Oushuu33Kannon Pilgrimage. I thought that the temple-like roof on the sign was quite appropriate. We wondered if it had been made at the bowling pin factory.
The roads that we were following were definitely back, country byways. We found that we could navigate quite well by going from one five corner intersection to the next. At one of them we found a shrine with a huge engraved rock. Ian stood beside it to give a sense of the size.
The grounds were well kept. All the weeds and grass were removed, leaving just bare ground around the building. This is the proper way to have a shrine or temple - any greenery must be carefully planted and pruned, nothing natural at all. This shrine was particularly strange since it had a road on each side and it opened on to the intersection itself.
In spite of having the torii in front, the telephone poles did nothing to improve that atmosphere.
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