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Sarcasthma posted...

Zikten posted...

visit a Shinto Shrine at least once. it's something you can only see in Japan.

There are quite a few in Hawaii, actually.

True, and several other places. Within the U.S., I've heard/read there also shrines in California and Washington. There are shrines in some other parts of the world as well. They have been built pretty much anywhere there was sizeable Japanese diaspora community, though in some areas shrines built before the end of World War II were removed in the aftermath because of an association of them with Japanese expansion and the departure of Japanese residents (this was the case in Korea, for example)

papery0shi2 posted...

Zikten posted...

visit a Shinto Shrine at least once. it's something you can only see in Japan.

Thank you I will look into this :)

I definitely would. Even if you aren't especially interested in the worship and ceremonies of a Shinto shrine, I'd say it's something you want to take time to see in Japan because of shrine's long-established association with Japanese culture. One of the most iconic objects that people associate readily with Japan is the torii, the gates at Shinto shrines. Usually these are red. You see them often in photographs of Japan. One of the most famous examples is the torii standing in water at Itsukushima Shrine in Hiroshima. Another is the row of many torii at Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto.
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