Welcoming the new year!

I haven't written a blog entry for a long time!!! I haven't been anywhere really substantial for me to write a post.  But as the memory is still fresh i thought i'll write about today's adventure!!!  Today was mixed of waiting, waiting and discovery of different readings of kanji!

Last night of course involved drinking and surprisingly i managed to wake up at 10am and we were meeting at midday so was able to get out even though i was a little zombified for the rest of the day.

I had no clue where we were going or what the Shrine was called so i just followed, we waited for the bus to Kanazawa station and then ask how to get there, bus wasn't an option as the next bus was at 5pm! So we thought train and we were told to go to West Kanazawa station.  We missed the train by a minute and had to wait for the next one..... then when we got to the station we then had to wait again for the next train there.... alot of waiting was done....

Finally after 3 hours we got there!!!!

 The special ticket that you can buy which combined the train and bus to take you to the shrine.

snowy mountains!!!

 

 

The main shrine! I also learnt how to properly do the wishing, throw your money in then you bow two times, clap two times, make your wish and then bow again!!! 

 

 

After taking pictures and looking around we decided to eat at the many stalls that you get around the shrine, there was too much choice!!! I decided to go for fried chicken as there was no queues i think i really wanted the big meat of the stick but oh well there will be a next time! Hopefully in the summer!

There is sake in those rows of white things with all those kanji, there are offerings for the temple from what i remember reading up on.

Our journey back was much quicker as we were lucky this time and not much waiting maybe because of what we got as a free gift? 

This was inside the box jingling, isn't this cute!!!!!! And probably gave us luck!

So a short post but at least the first one of the year!!! I'm really glad i wasn't too hungover to go out today as last time i was in Japan i went to a shrine too on new years day!