Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Tokyo: Asakusa- Asakusa Shrine

This shrine is considered separate from the temple however, the shrine is on the temple grounds. The shrine is dedicated to the fisherman brothers who were commanded by the gods to pull the Kannon statue from the river. The shrine was built by the 3rd Tokugawa shogun: Iemitsu.
There is a huge festival held annually in May.

The entrance of the shrine, you can see from here that is it is small in size.

Wired green(bronze) thing.
No idea what it is but it looks important.


One of the guard dogs. This one is actually cute.



The inside of the shrine, sorry the picture is bad I took it afar.

Something I saw in the metro underground which I thought was cool.

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