My first real walk - At the shrine

 As seems to be the general case here, the characters on the stelae were to worn and moss covered to read.

 The shrine consists of two buildings: The main one I showed from the front yesterday and this one which is behind it. I assume that this is the one that actually houses the object that represents the god. People who come can only stand in front of the main building to pray.

 This is a closeup of the woodwork on the panel on the left side. Shinto themes are often very nature oriented.

 There was a third building that appeared to be part of the shrine since it had the straw rope across the opening but it was completely empty and seemed to have no purpose.

 Here is a picture of the shrine from the side. The main building, nearest the street, is on the right and the empty building is in line with the truck of the tree. Also you can see some sheds to the left. These may be part of the shrine or they may be part of the public building which was behind me. The empty ground continues far to the right and makes a baseball field.

I left the shrine and started  up the hill toward the temple that the sign had indicated was a lot farther into the hills.