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They've got a gorgeous downtown, with the river through the middle of town now a willow-lined walkway. |
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| The town is built around the end of an inlet from the Japan Sea. |  |
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It's the only place in Japan where I saw organized rowing (click on the image for a better look). | ||
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I have no idea how this car got there, or how it's ever going to get out. |
So, while walking down the street away from the ryokan, I saw this little box two feet off the major road in town. | ||
| Here's the train coming in to take me onwards to Wadayama. Kinosaki is literally the end of the line for this train. |  |
It turned out to contain this small shrine (I assume a small-scale shrine like this is Shinto). |  |
| I was to realize this is a not-uncommon sight. Even in major cities like Tokyo, much less in countryside one like Kinosaki, some propertyowner will start such a shrine, and people from the area will often help maintain or expand it. | |||
