#6 Osu-Kannon
I wandered around Nagoya for a long time, just enjoying the local scenery...
And eventually found my way to Osu-Kannon, a very unique district of Nagoya. At one end, there's this huge temple.
The other side is an enormous covered shopping district, where you can find all kinds of really bizarre stuff and buy anything from clothes by the gram or used kimonos or video games or luggage or just about anything else. "Ecclectic" might the word to use here.
I will probably talk a great deal about the dualistic nature of Japan, but here's one example. In the middle of a very heavily commercialized area is this small shrine, and there were some older folks going in and out and saying prayers. It struck me as odd to find such a quiet and open place of prayer amidst the craziness of Osu-Kannon, but, well, here we are.
And eventually found my way to Osu-Kannon, a very unique district of Nagoya. At one end, there's this huge temple.
The other side is an enormous covered shopping district, where you can find all kinds of really bizarre stuff and buy anything from clothes by the gram or used kimonos or video games or luggage or just about anything else. "Ecclectic" might the word to use here.
I will probably talk a great deal about the dualistic nature of Japan, but here's one example. In the middle of a very heavily commercialized area is this small shrine, and there were some older folks going in and out and saying prayers. It struck me as odd to find such a quiet and open place of prayer amidst the craziness of Osu-Kannon, but, well, here we are.
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