Monday, November 19, 2012

Zuigudo(随求堂) in Kiyomizu-dera temple


If you explore in Kyoto for 14 days or more and feel boring, saying "From my view every temple and shrine is same!", please go to Zuigudo in Kiyomizu-dera temple(清水寺, きよみずでら). It's something special. In my knowledge there's no temple or shrine like that. When you pay 100 yen as the admission fee, you can explore in the perfect darkness in it. Going down the stairs to the underground, there's no light. You go along a handrail for 10 or 20 meters. I'm not sure about meters because that darkness was perfect. So I walked very slowly, taking about 8 minutes.

In the end you will find  a subtle light from a niche of a stone. You can touch the stone wishing something. Everything in the underground was so mysterious.

Yeah, that's special! Why not!?



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