Meiji Jingu with a Wood Block Effect

Day one of our trip saw us visiting the Meiji Jingu shrine near Harakjuku station. It's one of the oldest shrines - although like many shrines and castles in Japan, was burned to the ground and rebuilt.

These pictures have been processed using Jixi Pix Moku Hanga, a software that creates a wood block effect (Moku Hanga is Japanese for wood block), very topical for a trip to Japan.

Main entrance gate with its massive wooden torii gate

Sake barrels presented to the temple and displayed at the entrance as a show of how important this place is. Monks are presumably off-site partying somewhere...

Part of the Meiji garden - nice but no comparison to Kenrokuen in Kanazawa which we will visit next week