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Before arriving in Miyajima must prepare for a long trip, about the time when the warriors raised the first altar on the island. And if you ever visited Japan, Miyajima and will appear differently than you expect, you walk a few hundred years ago, on an island where everything seems frozen in time, from the houses of the Edo period (1603-1868), to its people, most of them elderly.
Official Itsukushima island in the western t5 t8 part of the Sea of Japan, is located in the northwest t5 t8 of Hiroshima Bay. Most often it is called Miyajima, which is, in the past, the city name on the little island. Miyajima literally means Island Shrine and is part of Nihon Sankei (Three Views of Japan).
I went to the train station that morning sky veiled with rain aroma creeping beneath my skin and diffuse ray of sunshine. Cramped camera bag, an apple and a book, I ran to catch the train among people shriveling under umbrellas. t5 t8 I found a window seat, and although at every stop cold crept through the chairs, t5 t8 it was warm enough t5 t8 compartments. The train dropped if drift among provincial towns, among landscapes of traditional Japanese country house, among rich fields of rice, rolled in powdered gold. The book I could reach. Japanese Autumn attracted me as a chimera, taking me with her forehead pressed against the window. The only desire was to inspire as much as this fall for fear disappear. After two hours of travel in a passenger train, we arrived at the station small and intimate, Miyajimaguchi.
We walk to the port where I bought a return ticket for the ferry to automatons. I sat in a row on a wooden platform built in a traditional style, and waited, for a few minutes to be picked up. The ten minute water was a pleasant experience. Although the breeze was strong and cold, all passengers, t5 t8 mostly foreign tourists flocked to as many photos. t5 t8 The gaze was sought torii (traditional Japanese gate found at the entrance to a Shinto shrine, symbolizing the passage from the profane to the sacred), one of the biggest attractions on the island. And here's a glimpse hat on, looming suddenly out of nowhere the waves, silent, passionate and stately, like a charming goddess of the sea.
The first thing that fills your eyes as you stepped on the island are dozens of deer walking free among men, in search of food or resting under the pines that surround the National Park Setonaikai. Leaning comforted tourists, besides their well-known delicacy, are gentle and eager attention. They are revered animals in the area are considered sacred messengers of the gods true Shinto religion.
In Miyajima, you can go on unnoticed, whether you choose to spend your time on the cliff, contemplating the traditional gate or Itsukushima temple, and he built on the water, leaving you feeling unreal t5 t8 that actually floats on the waves, whether start looking for souvenirs among the dozens of shops strung their merchandise to the street: the deer, wearing t5 t8 traditional Japanese even temples, all in miniature, the wooden spoons, amulets, figurines, plates of all sizes painted with images symbolic locals. t5 t8
If you get hungry, you can stop all the street t5 t8 where you can buy in a hurry fingers, ten nigiri (fish paste on a thin stick of bamboo, covered with seal and roasted), garnished with choice of ham slices, oysters , shrimp, lotus, calamari, burdock, t5 t8 khaki stealing (fried oysters) or frozen chestnuts. Or you can opt for a restaurant with full menu from the famous sushi dishes of the region, okonomiaki (Japanese pie with pork and cabbage), oysters and fish prepared in many ways. Another specialty of the area mainstay and her times