Noto Peninsula Tip #3 Myojoji-ji
by Mr.Sparkle
A few kilometers from Keta-Taisha is the impressive Myojoji Temple, which was founded in 1294 and housed over a dozen buildings. Most of impressive is Goju-no-to, a 34 meter, 5 story Buddhist pagoda completed in 1618. You can not enter the pagoda, but it’s impressive to look at and photograph. The other building of importance is Joroku-do, which contains the temple’s principal image of Shakyamuni Buddha.
Price is 500 yen, which is a little steep, but still worth it. They also have English pamphlets.
Kanazawa - Lost in Translation
by DSwede
My friend was in a foreign exchange program in Kanazawa Institute (KIT). Having an apartment here, we used this as base camp to plan our rail attacks to the north and south. The city itself is quite large and urban, but does not offer much for the tourist other than shopping. So, for two summers in a row, we rode the trains of Japan.
For some more general thoughts and descriptions of the places we visited, feel free to visit my Japan page.
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