We went to umbrella land Ise Shrine today. Unfortunately it was very misty and busy so I didn't get many good pictures. Not to mention that at the very inner part of the shrine, where all the really cool stuff is, I spent a few minutes lining up a really good shot only to be told "shashin o kakimasen" = no pictures :( (Lance tells me he snapped a few good ones while I was "cleverly distracting them," but I'm too lazy to upload any of his photos right now).
Somewhere in the general area was also supposed to be a Samurai Theme Park, but when we tried to ask one of the workers at the bus station for directions, there was a communication error somewhere and he instead gave us directions to the place in the picture above, which is a shopping area done up like historical Japan. This photo was taken from one of the bridges leading out of the neighbourhood. It was really crowded on all the inner streets, which were narrow to begin with, so I didn't feel like snapping any pictures in there. It was kind of neat to look around in there, but we decided to try one more time to get to the Samurai Theme Park. This time, we got directions to the bus stop that would take us there. After walking for nearly 15 minutes in an increasingly misty afternoon and not yet arriving at the bus stop we decided to turn around, not get lost, and grab the next bus back to the train station.
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So that's how the whole picture thing works? You "cleverly distract them" while Lance snaps the pictures? Hehehe
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