Reminiscing Tokyo Part 3: More Pictures of Asakusa, Sensoji Temple (10/31/06)
Click here for Part 1 of my Tokyo travelogue, and here for Part 2 if you have missed them. I'll be continuously updating coverage for of the entire Japan trip.
More pictures of Sensoji Temple in Asakusa.
For 300 Yen you can make a wish and write it on a small wooden card and hang it on one of the racks around the temple.
Local people allow incense waft over them to purify them.
The interior of the Sensoji Temple. A middle-aged Japanese couple were hanging the strip of paper rendered by the fortune stick onto the rack.
Now it's my turning to tie my fortune paper on the rack. I was making a wish...
Many tourists misunderstood the etiquette of purification. You're supposed to make an offering to the temple, whose clerks will in exchange give you an incense. Light up he incense and place it onto the sand bath in the furnce and let the incense waft over the body to achieve purification. I hope the goddess will grant my wish.
A favorite picture of mine. This one offers a complete view of Sensoji Temple and its peripheral monuments--makes a good postcard eh?
After Sensoji Temple, I had a bowl of Hokaido-style noodle soup with gyoza (Japanese potstickers).
More pictures of Sensoji Temple in Asakusa.
For 300 Yen you can make a wish and write it on a small wooden card and hang it on one of the racks around the temple.
Local people allow incense waft over them to purify them.
The interior of the Sensoji Temple. A middle-aged Japanese couple were hanging the strip of paper rendered by the fortune stick onto the rack. 
Now it's my turning to tie my fortune paper on the rack. I was making a wish...
Many tourists misunderstood the etiquette of purification. You're supposed to make an offering to the temple, whose clerks will in exchange give you an incense. Light up he incense and place it onto the sand bath in the furnce and let the incense waft over the body to achieve purification. I hope the goddess will grant my wish. 
A favorite picture of mine. This one offers a complete view of Sensoji Temple and its peripheral monuments--makes a good postcard eh?
After Sensoji Temple, I had a bowl of Hokaido-style noodle soup with gyoza (Japanese potstickers).
6 Comments:
looks fun
Great pics.
I want to go.
I want it all, except the raw fish.
-- Cip
I'm loving the pics and the travelogue. I have wanted to go to Japan for the longest time. Anyway, I hope your wish comes true! :) Can't wait to hear more.
what were you wishing for at the factory
Heh, I know I would need to have my wishes purified.
Just thought I'd welcome you back to San Francisco!!! I hope you had a wonderful trip and got a chance to relax. Thank you so much for thinking of me and for the wonderful post cards and the e-mails! I enjoyed receiving them and reading them, (although was a little puzzled about what you said at the end of the second post card?) Anyway, I hope you get a chance to rest and get back into the swing of things
smoothly. I enjoyed reading your Blog...it was interesting to read how much others liked reading your Blog and how much they liked you as well.
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