Chikubushima and Hogonji Temple 竹生島・宝厳寺
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Throw your two dishes at the torii gate. If your dish goes under the torii gate, your wish will come true. Geez, look at all those failed wishes (shattered dishes).This is also one location where the film Idai Naru, Shurararabon (偉大なる、しゅららぼん The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom) was filmed. The scene where Ryosuke throws his small dish through the torii.
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View of Nagahama from Chikubushima
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Tsukubusuma Shrine (National Treasure) on Chikubushima island, Nagahama, Shiga. It worships Benzaiten as well as the Dragon God and Azai-hime. 都久夫須麻神社
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Tsukubusuma Shrine (National Treasure)
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Tsukubusuma Shrine (National Treasure)
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Funa-roka boat corridor connects Tsukubusuma Shrine and the Kannon-do Hall. Important Cultural Property. From the Momoyama Period. 船廊下
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Funa-roka boat corridor
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Funa-roka boat corridor
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Kannondo Temple
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Kannondo Temple 観音堂
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Kannondo Temple
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Kannondo Temple
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Kannondo Temple
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Kannondo Temple
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Very old and worn statue of Pindola Bharadvaja (賓頭盧尊者) inide Karamon Gate.
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Very old and worn statue of Pindola Bharadvaja (賓頭盧尊者) inide Karamon Gate.
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Very old and worn statue of Pindola Bharadvaja (賓頭盧尊者) inide Karamon Gate.
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Chikubushima Port.
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Karamon Gate 唐門 (National Treasure). Entrance to the Kannondo Temple. It might have come from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's original mausoleum in Kyoto. From the Momoyama Period. Chikubushima, Nagahama, Shiga.This could also have been the gate to the Gokuraku Bridge at Hideyoshi's Osaka Castle in the early 17th century.
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Kannondo Temple and Karamon gate of Hogonji temple on Chikubushima island, Nagahama, Shiga.
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Benzaiten-do Hall, the main worship hall of Hogonji temple.
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Inside Benzai Tendo.
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Inside Benzaiten-do Hall which houses one of Japan's three major statues of the Goddess Benzaiten.
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Inside Benzai Tendo
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Inside Benzai Tendo
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Inside Benzai Tendo. The statue of Benzaiten in that corner was donated by the father of Lord Azai Nagamasa.
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Inside Benzai Tendo
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Benzai Tendo
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Three-Story Pagoda. Reconstructed in 2000.
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Chikubushima has some steep steps.
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Interlaken boat to Imazu at Chikubushima.
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Chikubushima
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West view of Chikubushima
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East view of Chikubushima in 2007, whose trees are badly ravaged by kawau cormorants. Over 30,000 of these birds live on the island.
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North face of Chikubushima in 2007 was also badly damaged and going bald. The cormorant bird droppings and nesting activities (breaking off branches) are killing off the trees.
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