A slightly hilarious phone booth right outside of the park.

A torii over the front entrance.

The main gravel path through the park, it was fairly well populated with walkers.

Left and right views from a small bridge.

At one point the path was lined with European and Japanese wine dedicated to the shrine.

Another torii over the path, this one seemed newer.

Entrance gate to the courtyard.

A mossy tree just outside the gate.

Within. (lesson: when taking pictures (1,2,3) which you intend to make a panorama from, don't move)

The main building of the shrine.

Within. Note huge drum.

The entrance gate as seen from within...

...and from another angle.

A collection of prayer tablets were arrayed around this tree. Blank ones and some other charm-type-things were for sale a short distance away, but I was discouraged from taking a picture.

Two trees with a rope between them. I don't know the significance of this arrangement but it was very pretty.

The shrine and park are located in the middle of Tokyo, a la Central Park in NYC, and from the right angle there are interesting views such as this.

We continued on a bit away from the main area, on lonely roads with nice trees.

There were some spaces for private ceremonies off to the side.

The trees were filled with strange sounding crows (not that you can see any in this picture).

We came to a wide, parklike clearing with a fishy pond (which photographed terribly) and another view of that tower over the trees.

Ah, the Treasure Museum, which is why we were walking off in this direction!

Closed on Mondays.

So we looked about the park, which apparently had an archery range (not pictured, but several people with huge bows were seen).

Flowers were rare, but pretty. Many small plants were held up by bamboo poles.

We walked back along a different route, again fairly deserted and with similar vegetation filled with noisy crows.
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