Meiji Shrine

Posted on 20. Mar, 2007 @ 8:50 pm by in Tokyo Views: 852

During the Tokyo Tour we stopped by Meiji Shrine near Harajuku.

If you come to this shrine on for new years, as in midnight on Jan 1st, you’ll be in for an insane line of people coming to do their “ohatsumoude” 「お初詣」, or first temple visit of the year. I hear it is the single most crowded shrine in Japan at this time.

I’ve never been here during new years!

Makes for a nice picture, but this is the area where you are to wash your hands before entering the shrine grounds.

It was cold outside.

The water is freezing.

I didn’t wash.

I’m sorry.

If you want to have a quaint quiet wedding, just for your loved one and your immediate family…

Don’t have it at Meiji Shrine.

Pretty much everyone with a camera at the temple at the time started snapping this lovely couple as soon as they stepped on the scene.

Can you believe those insensitive people? Some people today… No respect for privacy.

…

Here’s my pictures.

This is just a tree in th shrine area, but I love it. Look at the size of this tree!

Love it.

So long Meiji Shrine.

- Harvey

  • http://pixelscribbles.com/journal Heather Meadows

    Great pics! I, too, love the tree.

    The close-up of the wedding party is interesting. The bride’s face is all smooth and emotionless, but the mother of the bride (I assume) looks happy and content.

    I’m sure the bride is just being as yamatonadeshiko as possible, but I think I prefer a smile at a wedding :)

  • http://www.japannewbie.com harvey

    There -is- something about that tree isn’t there? It’s so… round. Love it!

    I know you probably meant as such, but this isn’t the wedding party, it’s more the wedding ceremony itself. They’re probably going to change into western gear at night and have the jamming after-party where everyone lets their hair down and gets drunk off their butts.

    Yeah she is pretty stoic isn’t she. I dunno, but maybe it’s hard to smile with all that make-up caked on!

    - Harvey

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