(contd)Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine

In the first posting you have read about some religious marks around the shrine, but there are more to see!!! Let's see what they have here!!

This stall sells sugar coated apple. Wisnu loves this because first, it's sweet as it is made of sugar, second he can bite the sweet apple inside and third the color is striking red thus very enticing and mouth watering! Only 300 yen for the big apple and 200 yen for the small one.


They also sell many modern Japanese masks , 500 yen each --quite expensive for a mask . Luckily Wisnu only pointed at those masks and not asking to have one!

Children who visit the shrine would love to buy the candies. They come in different shapes--round, heart, and colors: pink, blue, green, white .

It seemed that there were many ceremonies held in the jinja . We saw some parents with their babies and children in kimonos. Japanese children go to shrines and wear traditional costumes at the age of 3 and 7 for girls, and at the age of 5 for boys to wish for good future.

Wisnu managed to take pictures with these two japanese girls.

When we were about to leave the shrine, we ran over a bride and a groom heading for the jinja. Just see how elegant and gorgeous Japanese wedding gown is!

It turned out that Japan still preserve the traditional transpotation , if China has rick-shaw, and Indonesia has becak, here you can try to ride jinrikisha which means "human-powered vehicle" . unfortunately we did not have the time to ride on this jinriksha and by the way it's freezing here that we just got to rush to find something for lunch!!!



From tsurugaoka Hachimangu Jinja, here we are sending you our biggest smile!!!