Picturesque alleyway pointing to the seaside.

The red box is a post office box. You can tell from the white kanji on the side that looks like a letter T

About 50 paces from the seaside we found this great bonzai garden.

On the third day in Kamogawa, Adrian and I decided we would find a zinzya)shinto shrine. We asked the superintendent of the seminar house if there were any nearby and he said we would have to take a taxi if we wanted to find one. We had heard though that you could see one from the beach so we decided to look around anyways as a an excuse to get out. We were looking for about 30 minutes before we found this one. Jullian, the fellow on the left in the picture below thinks that the super might have been trying to discourage us from going out in the afternoon because of the mamushi(japanese rattlesnake). Apparently, last year there was a fatal accident. Still, they`re nocturnal so we haven`t been exploring countryside in the evening. No real loss though.

Here`s the actual shrine. Most zinzya, even small ones, have large gates as shown in the picture before because it`s a necessary part of the enshrinement. So you could have a giant twenty foot gate and four foot shrine right behind it!