On Sunday, Ayako and I joined some friends and took an hour drive to the town of Mori which has a famous shrine, which is especially popular at this time of year since the have some beautiful Japanese maple trees along a river that look lovely at this time of year. If you actually look back to December 2005, you'll see when I went there last year. It was the peak weekend to see the leaves changing colour, so there was a huge line of traffic when we got close to the shrine. We decided to park at a nearby tea house and walk the rest of the way. But first, we got some good pictures of the giant tea pot pouring water:
I think the shrine is very scenic and peaceful and quiet usually, although it was definitely busy when we were there. Still, I tried to get some good peaceful pictures when I was there:
While we were at the shrine:
we saw a numer of children who were dressed up to celebrate a special Shinto holiday, shichi-go-san. When a boy turns 3 & 5 and when a girl turns 3 & 7, they visit the shrine for a special ceremony to wish them a long life:
We then had fun walking along the river with beautiful trees:
and took a nice group hot together:
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