A Night On Miyajima

 

From Daisho-in Temple the views down onto Itsukushima Shrine and its iconic torii are quite impressive.

Daisho-in administered  Itsukushima Shrine until 1868, and it was, like most religious sites in Japan at the time both Buddhist and "shinto" hence the pagoda....

It was getting late and my plan was tp sleep out in a park on the back-side of the island.

I didnt go into the shrine..... too expensive, too many visitors, and having been there several times before, not much to see....

Said to be the biggest rice-spoon, shamoji, in the world...

Miyajima has numerous shrines on the shoreline, and originally all of them were only visited by boat, no-one lived on the island

Now there is a road on a small section of the coast of Miyajima, but still some of the shrines can only be reached by boat.

On the back side of the island, there are lots of oyster farms.

My room for the night was a bench in a small park. The previous post was on Daishoin Temple.