{"id":813,"date":"2009-03-13T01:16:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2009\/03\/13\/our-tokyo-trip-day-01-iii\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T12:04:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T12:04:39","slug":"our-tokyo-trip-day-01-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2009\/03\/13\/our-tokyo-trip-day-01-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Tokyo Trip Day 01 (III) &#8211; Meiji Shrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 22 Feb 2009 Sunday<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>12:15 PM Meiji Shrine \u00e6\u02dc\u017d\u00e6\u00b2\u00bb\u00e7\u00a5\u017e\u00e5\u00ae\u00ae<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7971.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">First Torii at the entrance of Meiji Shrine<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2009\/03\/our-tokyo-trip-day-01-ii\/#NaritaAirport\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Narita Airport<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/icons\/orange.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2009\/03\/our-tokyo-trip-day-01-ii\/#HTH1\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Hilton T Hotel<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/icons\/orange.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2009\/03\/our-tokyo-trip-day-01-ii\/#Harajuku\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Harajuku<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/icons\/orange.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Meiji Shrine<a name=\"MeijiShrine\"><\/a><\/strong> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/icons\/orange.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2009\/03\/our-tokyo-trip-day-01-iv\/#HTH2\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Hilton T Hotel<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/icons\/orange.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2009\/03\/our-tokyo-trip-day-01-iv\/#Shibuya\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Shibuya<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/icons\/orange.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2009\/03\/our-tokyo-trip-day-01-iv\/#HTH3\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Hilton T Hotel<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7974.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7975.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7977.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7978.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7979.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7980.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Barrels of Sake donated to the Shrine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7981.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7982.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7984.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7987.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7990.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7992.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7993.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7994.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8012.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Instructions of the ritual of cleansing of hands and mouths is provided.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7996.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rinse the left hand first, followed by the right hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_7998.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rinse mouth with water poured onto the palm of the left hand. Hold the dipper upright in both hands to rinse the handle with the remaining water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8002.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">JR&#8217;s turn!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8004.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8005.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8007.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8008.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The water was super refreshing and COLD&#8230;brrrrrrrrrr&#8230;. my hands were frozen after the &#8220;ritual&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8009.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8010.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8013.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8015.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8017.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The shrine itself<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Meiji Shrine is a Shinto shrine dedicated to the deified spirits of Emperor Meiji and his consort, Empress Shoken.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8020.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8022.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Prayers left by visitors<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8028.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8029.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8023.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8030.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8033.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8035.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8036.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8042.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8045.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh, there&#8217;s a Shinto Wedding going on!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We were attracted to this wedding ceremony when we realised that there was another wedding &#8220;passing by&#8221; behind us!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8046.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Priests and maidens wearing traditional dresses for the wedding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8047.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Everybody seems to be very serious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8048.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8049.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Total silence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8051.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8052.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8056.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8058.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We had a toilet break before leaving the Shrine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8059.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Back to Takeshita Dori at 12:30 PM. The whole Meiji Shrine &#8220;tour&#8221; took us more than an hour! We shopped at Daiso to buy some toys for my darlings before leaving&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>14:00 PM Leaving Harajuku \u00e5\u017d\u0178\u00e5\u00ae\u00bf<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/2009\/Travel\/200902Tokyo\/Day01\/03\/IMG_8060.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/travel\/\">View my entire TRAVEL list<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 22 Feb 2009 Sunday 12:15 PM Meiji Shrine \u00e6\u02dc\u017d\u00e6\u00b2\u00bb\u00e7\u00a5\u017e\u00e5\u00ae\u00ae First Torii at the entrance of Meiji Shrine Narita Airport&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}