A little farther down the road, just before we were going to turn back, we discovered yet another temple. Well, origionally, we weren't quite sure what it was, so we had to ask. The nice old lady we asked said, yes, it certainly was a shrine.
She went off to get the guy who runs it. He was very nice and gave us a whole tour, and he even spoke English.
Pretty great English too! We learnt a lot more about temples and religion in Japan in about an hour, much more that I ever knew! It was a really fun experience. We were the only people there too, so it seemed like we had our own little tour! I really enjoyed the one room which was basically a beautiful greenhouse inside, all of the walls were huge windows and it was full of lovely brown dark wood. We took some photos there, as well as in front of the lovely lake with some cool stone lanterns before we went inside the main temple area.
A little farther down the road, just before we were going to turn back, we discovered yet another temple. Well, origionally, we weren't quite sure what it was, so we had to ask. The nice old lady we asked said, yes, it certainly was a shrine. 
She went off to get the guy who runs it. He was very nice and gave us a whole tour, and he even spoke English. 
Pretty great English too! We learnt a lot more about temples and religion in Japan in about an hour, much more that I ever knew! It was a really fun experience. We were the only people there too, so it seemed like we had our own little tour! I really enjoyed the one room which was basically a beautiful greenhouse inside, all of the walls were huge windows and it was full of lovely brown dark wood. We took some photos there, as well as in front of the lovely lake with some cool stone lanterns before we went inside the main temple area. 
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