Visiting the Itsukushima Shintō Shrine on the Japanese island Miyajima
After we spend some time in the metropolitan tumult of Osaka, we headed south towards Hiroshima. It started getting greener on the countryside and shrine visits started to become the order of the day. An extensive site was located on the island Miyajima (宮島) which means translated „shrine-island“. The island is packed with temple sites and there is as well the famous Itsukushima Shintō-Shrine ( 厳島神社).
The basic architecture of the shrine was erected in 593. The Great Torii (厳島神社 大鳥居) exists since the year 1168, but they renewed it with camphorwood. It´s only accessible by foot during low tide, during high tide it´s surrounded by water. The main buildings of the Itsukushima Shrine are placed in front of the island on higher platforms which are connected by 280 meter long corridors. When its pillars are in the water during high tide it looks like the whole construction is swimming. The UNESCO announced the shrine and the Torii as a world cultural heritage in 1996.
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Awesome post! Your pictures are gorgeous. I will definitely visit Miyajima next time I return to Japan.
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I love that place too! I will check your article. Here are some more pics and information about Miyajima: https://steemit.com/photography/@vagabundler/surrounded-by-a-stone-army-of-hippie-buddha-monks-miyajima-japan
Thank you very much! I'll check it out :)
Love this Place 😀 I made some timelapse there last summer 😀
Yes, it´s wonderful! Between this very calming and spiritual place we found some little funny smiling stone monks with knitted hats. I started photographing them but there were just more and more along the way.... If you are interested, have a look here on the article, the whole island is just covered with this little gnomes...:-) https://steemit.com/photography/@vagabundler/surrounded-by-a-stone-army-of-hippie-buddha-monks-miyajima-japan