| | | | | | I met a monk near this tea house. He wore a black robe (not shown in this picture).
He was staring at me anxiously. I nodded at him and said hello. He pointed at my backpack. I didn't know what he meant, so I opened it and let him take a look (it's OK to do this in Japan but not in other countries).
He pointed at my ichimatsu doll. I told him I found it at hakodate. He shook his head. Perhaps he disagreed on what I did, or perhaps he didn't understand what I said: I couldn't tell which is which.
He spoke to me in Japanese which I couldn't understand. He sighed and tried to speak English. He said something like "Kada". I asked him if "Kada" is a nice place to eat? He shook his head and asked me for paper. He scribbled something down on paper.
I recognized the three kanji words "Wakayama", which is listed on my lonely planet. I could tell the other two characters is Kada. He also wrote the name of a shrine in Japanese characters. The first two letter is "A" and "WA", but I couldn't tell the next two. It wasn't a big problem. I could easily search it up on the Internet. I thanked the monk and head towards Kasuga Taisha.
That night, it didn't take me long to find out the name Awashima Jinja and I decided to head there the next day (I had to delay my original plan of going to the Ikoma Zan). | | | | | |
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| model | Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT |
| focal | 17.0mm (35mm equivalent: 28mm) |
| exposure | aperture priority (semi-auto) |
| distant | walk 0.04 km SE from last photo |
| location | Map of "tea house in front of floating cloud shrine" |
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| date | 2006:11:25 16:04:34 |
width | 3456 |
| height | 2304 |
flash | No |
| timing | 0.125 s (1/8) |
aperture | f/4.0 |
| iso | 200 |
whitebalance | Auto |
| latitude | N 34d 41.01m 0s |
longitude | E 135d 50.71m 0s |
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