Miyajima (宮島） - Last

If you are fans of Hello Kitty , you can buy some limited edition Miyajima Hello Kitty only here in Miyajima.

もみじ饅頭 ( Momiji Manjyuu) making machine.

There are various flavor for momiji manjyuu , like green tea, red bean, cream, chocolate..

Omotesando Shopping Arcade (Hiroshima) is on the way from Miyajima port to Itsukushima shrine.There are plenty of shops and restaurants to fill the needs of tourists. It's saturday, so here was crowded with local people and foreign tourists.

Miyajima is famous for inventing the rice paddle and they have the world largest rice paddle.

Besides the traditional wooden rice paddle, there are others local speacialities like wood carving items, earthenware bells and Miyajima Hariko (paper dolls).

You will pass souvenir shops and restaurants. One thing you shouldn't miss are the famed grilled oysters of Hiroshima . Oyster in Japanese called ' kaki '

They sell senbei (rice cracker) which like the “ Bing Bing Mi Guo “ with variety flavours. Which do you prefer?

This is really nice! 隆重推介!
Fried momiji with cheese filling.

The fate of this two children are so different.
The left one, 食饱0左没0野做,得闲行行企企ge cute boy.
The right one, 0吾知食饱没, 有0野做都做0吾到ge忧郁boy.

In front of the entrance to the Itsukushima Shrine, there is a water trough where you gotta wash your hand before proceeding to the shrine and temple.

The sand under the Shrine shown here is actually the sea bed at low tide. At high tide the water submerges the entire area making the Shrine look to be floating. You can see the water line marks on some of the pillars, which rises to no more than 30cm.

I think as you walked into the entrance , you could see this Omikuji ( 御神籤 - the fortune paper )vending box , just wondering why not vending machine?? haha .There is a wooden box with wooden sticks , just like the one you could find in Chinese temple. So, your near future would be told by the divine. To find your fortune, you shake a box full of sticks, then pull out one of the sticks. You match the number on the stick, to a number on the drawer and pull out your fortune. After paying, you unroll the folded paper and take a look at your fortune. Fortunes are divided into different levels of luck and misfortune.

My fortune was Fair luck (中吉).

Whether you got Excellent luck (大吉)or Disaster (大凶), you're supposed to tie the fortune paper in a knot around the wooden rack like this.

As moving up to Dasho-in temple ,n the middle of the stairs is a row of spinning metal wheels that are inscribed with sutra (Buddhist scriptures), known as spinning wheels of sutra. Spinning the inscriptions as walking up is believed to have the same effect as reading them. By doing so , you might be blessed.

Every Omikuji costs around 100 - 300 yen . So, just choose the one you like.

This “一愿大师” grant you only ONE WISH. No more than that.

Some people said that Miyajima, is an island where gods and people live together.

Look at this , no wonder it won its place in UNESCO world heritage listing.

Back to home, there were the momiji manjyuu made by myself and some of it given during the momiji manjyuu workshop.