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Famous Suicide Spot

Posted by Ed | Last updated Aug 26, 2017 | Death, Nature, Travel Destinations | 1 |

Coffee Cup Grave

by Ed | Last updated Nov 14, 2017 | Osaka, Kyoto, and the Kansai Region, Travel Destinations | 0 |

Corporate grave belonging to UCC, a company that makes coffee. Located in Okunoin, a graveyard on...

Famous Suicide Spot

by Ed | Last updated Aug 26, 2017 | Death, Nature, Travel Destinations | 1 |

Sandanbeki is a famous suicide spot in the town of Shirahama, Wakayama prefecture. The sign says...

Panty Bag at Awashima Shrine

by Ed | Last updated Aug 17, 2017 | Osaka, Kyoto, and the Kansai Region, Sex, Traditional Japan, Travel Destinations | 0 |

Awashima jinja (Awashima shrine) in Wakayama attracts many female visitors who come to pray for...

Hina Dolla at Awashima Jinja

by Ed | Last updated Jul 31, 2017 | Dolls and Sculpture, Kids and Toys, Osaka, Kyoto, and the Kansai Region, Traditional Japan, Travel Destinations | 0 |

Hina doll at Awashima Jinja in Wakayama prefecture. Other posts with pictures of Awashima Jinja:...

Hina Doll at Awashima-jinja

by Ed | Last updated Jul 31, 2017 | Dolls and Sculpture, Osaka, Kyoto, and the Kansai Region, Traditional Japan, Travel Destinations | 0 |

Hina doll at Awashima Jinja in Wakayama prefecture. Editor’s note: this post was originally...

Awashima-jinja, the Doll Shrine

by Ed | Last updated Jul 31, 2017 | Festivals, Kids and Toys, Osaka, Kyoto, and the Kansai Region, Traditional Japan, Travel Destinations | 0 |

Ornamental battledores (hagoita) at Awashima Jinja in Wakayama prefecture. Battledores were used...

Thousand-tatami Cliff in Shirahama

by Ed | Last updated Jun 24, 2017 | Nature, Osaka, Kyoto, and the Kansai Region, Travel Destinations | 1 |

The senjojiki (thousand tatami mat cliff) in Shirahama. Shirahama is a popular tourist resort in Wakayama prefecture and these cliffs are a popular tourist attraction. The rock is very soft, and thousands of visitors have carved...

Hina Doll at the Awashima Shrine in Wakayama

by Ed | Last updated Aug 2, 2017 | Dolls and Sculpture, Kids and Toys, Osaka, Kyoto, and the Kansai Region, Traditional Japan, Travel Destinations | 0 |

Hina doll at Awashima Jinja in Wakayama prefecture. Many Japanese people believe that dolls have souls, so instead of throwing them in the garbage, they take them to a shrine where they are blessed and ritually burned or thrown...

Lost Shoe in a Graveyard

by Ed | Last updated Jul 31, 2017 | Death | 0 |

Shoe lost by a child at Okunoin Graveyard on Mt. Koya in Wakayama prefecture.

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