Kumano shrine ⛩️🙏

#timetotravel Back on the ground, I spent the rest of my time at Shingu Kumano Shrine wandering around and enjoying the peaceful atmosphere. “Nagatoko” translates as “long floor” and the structure would make an excellent outdoor banquet spot if they would set up some tables and chairs. It’s a wide-open space (27 x 12 meters in area) with a roof and no walls, and it offers some interesting angles and views of the immediate area. My photography-inclined friends busily explored these for artistic possibilities. The rest of the shrine area is nice, though typical of what you can see at a thousand other shrines in Japan. I liked the dragon’s-head fountain, and did my best to rinse my hands and mouth in the prescribed method. No matter how often people tell me how to do it, I feel like I’m learning again every time I visit another temple or shrine.