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Trip to Minumeyashiro Shrine – the Day befor New Year

January 1, 2010 4:08 am

Knowing that we not gonna be able to visit “our” shrines during the New Year eve (as we did an year ago) we decided to visit them instead during the day and to see all the preparations for the New Year.

First we visited our Shinto shrine – Minumeyashiro. It is relatively small one located just a few minutes walk from Iwaya station – Hanshin or 5-7 minutes walk from Nada JR station. Actually it is somewhat hidden in the shadow of BB plaza office building.

Already at the main entrance there were new blue banners:

This is the main building. To the right you can see the fire place:

In the fire place you can see the old tools from the small spring of the srines. The spring itself is with new bamboo and tools:

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You can clearly see that it is the Tiger new year coming (look behind the shisa):

Here are and the rest of the photos:

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This is a small red shrine close to the main gate. It is really very pittoresque:

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Here comes and the second one. It is really very, very small. I have no clue whatever about its name and I can not decipher the kanji on google map. It is a Buddhist one. Here is the google map – may be somebody knows this temple or at least can read the kanji (on the map it is just to the right of Minumeyashiro Shrine):

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This is the information table at the entrance:

The temple has many strange statues. The first time we found it was nigh and we were alsmost scared. It looked most like a pagan temple. Here are the photos: