{"id":33,"date":"2011-05-25T10:59:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T10:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurelraab.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2011-05-25T11:01:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T11:01:42","slug":"hanozono-shrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Hanozono Shrine"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Kelsey and Jim were visiting, us along with Dan stumbled upon a shrine while making our way back to Shinjuku Station. Unfortunately it was dark out so the pictures aren’t too great, but we still took the opportunity to walk around a bit.<\/p>\n

The Hanozono shrine was founded in the mid 19th century and is a basic Shinto shrine. There is a torii gate to enter through, a haiden which is the main hall of worship, komainu, lion-dog statues, and a wall of ema (wishes). Since we went after dinner around 10-11pm or so, we were the only people walking around.<\/p>\n

Kelsey and Jim standing under a small torii gate
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Dan and I ringing prayer bells. People throw yen in, pray, then ring the bells.
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Striking a pose in front of the shrine
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Hello!
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What’s in here? We weren’t sure what the basin was for, so I took a look inside. Upon research when we got home, they collect rain runoff from the shrine roof.
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While Kelsey and Jim were visiting, us along with Dan stumbled upon a shrine while making our way back to Shinjuku Station. Unfortunately it was dark out so the pictures aren’t too great, but we still took the opportunity to walk around a bit. The Hanozono shrine was founded in the mid 19th century and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,70,46,45,26,51,48],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dan","tag-hanazono","tag-jim","tag-kelsey","tag-shinjuku","tag-shrine","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}