When you come to Kyoto, Japan, you will find many types of gateways of Shinto. Normally they have vivid red or orange color. The size is about 3 meters. But, one of them is just 30 cm or sometimes 10 cm. You can't go through that gateway to go into a shrine :( Yeah, actually no shrine across a very small gateway, it's just hanged on a wall.
It's one of the biggest gateway. Sometimes I get the feeling that it's too big, and who built it? In old Japan people believed that a gateway is a border between this real world and a sacred world. And bigger one was kind of a symbol to appreciate that sacred world to save people from pain in this world.
Different direction here. Well, too big. If you familiar with it, after you go through it 100 times, you may feel it's not too big. Yeah, in the first photo, everybody was walking without big emotional expression. And also cars went though. That unreal one is in our daily life.
Well, if you come to Kyoto, please try to visit that big gateway and 1000s of gateways in Fushimi-inari shrine. If you get familiar with them, you understand the sense of Japanese in old era.
Now, I don't X( I will try it!!
The backpackers hostel in Kyoto is located in its historical district, Gion.
Good access by buses and trains. The center of Kyoto.
Please contact us, if you want to book our hostel.
Good access by buses and trains. The center of Kyoto.
Please contact us, if you want to book our hostel.
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