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10.31.2000
8:26 AM | Link |
 We ride the Ginza line subway to Asakusa, and almost as soon as we leave the station we are faced with the temple gate. There are hundreds of people here, most of them uniformed students taking group pictures with the huge lantern hanging under the gate. To get to the temple itself, we pass through a long shopping arcade full of some of the silliest trinkets we have yet to see. As we leave the arcade, we 'bathe' ourselves in incense to purify us for the temple, then walk the steps to where people are praying, lighting candles, and buying fortunes. I buy some bells from a man who spends a very long time explaining each charm to me with an English translation chart - everything from "luck with money" to "traffic safety".
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