Road to Meiji Shrine.. a hidden forest

To get away from the craziness of the big city, we decided to go to a shrine near the train station in Harajuku. Even though it's right within the city, you can't even tell because it's a huge forested area with amazing umbrella-like trees and other greenery all around you. Their parks and shrines are like little pockets of forest hidden within the city. It's sort of like Central Park in NY, but the parks here seem to be preserves of forests and not man-made. It's like you just turn a corner, walk a little ways and suddenly magically transported... think "spirited away". The wide road takes you to a beautiful old shrine temple. These photos are some of the things you'll find on the way to the Shrine.


The bottom picture are of some Saki barrels that were donated to the shrine. The walk to the shrine was so peaceful. I highly recommend it if you're ever in Harajuki. I will post pics of the Shrine itself in the next post.