August 13 Being a tourist

Phrase of the day: Sore wa ikura desu ka?
GPS location: N 36°45.311' E 139°36.061'

Brendan here.
Today we went to the world heritage sites around Nikko . They have some fantastic temples here. I think you could look them up for yourselves. We took some photos.


















































This temple was apparently where the hear-no-evil, see-no-evil, speak-no-evil monkeys come from. The plaque is one of several describing the life of men. This one is for the child stage reminding us that children should see, hear and speak no evil. Beautiful really.

We also noticed this peculiarity with some Japanese detailing in that everything seemed to have a roof (it did make sense since this was snow country and it was raining a lot). The street lights, the fences, the signs, even the service boxes.















Even this floor beam that protruded past the eaves line.













Some crazy metal work to protect the nails (I think) joining the handrail to the balustrade (if you can call it that because I think it was also a post capping for the floor supports). Also the structure for the roof seems like it could be rationalised somehow.



The last image is of a stair and stream rolled into one. Why let a stream spoil your building desires. They can co-exist. Hot.