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the whole town of Sakai gathers for the “Danjiri Matsuri” Festival. Held every year, it has an amazing atmosphere!
The starting point is the Ōtori Grand Shrine where in the early morning the teams start warming up by drinking boxes of beer, which will give them the strength needed to pull the heavy cart of their team through the streets of the town…

Every generation is involved : young kids and teenagers (girls and boys) and young men pull the cart, the elderly sit on the cart playing music and encouraging the pulling team to run with frenzy !

more infos about the Danjiri : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danjiri_Matsuri

Ginkaku-ji (銀閣寺 Ginkaku-ji), the “Temple of the Silver Pavilion,” is a Zen temple in the Sakyo ward of Kyoto, Japan. It is one of the construction that represents the Higashiyama Culture of Muromachi period.
Ashikaga Yoshimasa initiated plans for creating a retirement villa and gardens as early as 1460;[1] and after his death, Yoshimasa would arrange for this property to become a Zen temple.[2] The official name is Jishō-ji (慈照寺 Jishō-ji?) or the “Temple of Shining Mercy.” The temple is today associated with the Shokoku-ji branch of Rinzai Zen. (source: wikipedia)

Honenin Temple Kyoto is one of the temples along Kyoto’s Philosopher’s Walk. Honenin Temple was established in 1861 to honour Honen the founder of Jodo sect.

The Philosopher’s Walk (哲学の道 Tetsugaku no Michi) is a pedestrian path that follows a cherry-tree-lined canal in Kyoto, between Ginkaku-ji and Nanzen-ji. The route is so-named because the influential 20th century Japanese philosopher and Kyoto University professor Nishida Kitaro is thought to have used it for daily meditation. It passes a number of temples and shrines such as Hōnen-in, Ōtoyo Shrine, and Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji. It takes about 30 minutes to complete the walk, although many people spend more time visiting the sights along the way. (from Wikipedia)

Situated high on a hill overlooking the city from the northwest, it sits in an area where since the Heian period (794 to 1185) people have abandoned the bodies of the dead, exposing them to the wind and rain. Now, some eight thousand Buddhism statuettes, collected around 1903 then scattered around Adashino, memorialize the souls of the dead.

meet Jizo Bodhisattva, the protector of women, children, and travelers in the six realms of existence.