Fukui Day 1
Today we started our second trip with Odigo Japan! We're in Fukui prefecture, a small prefecture on the Western coast of Japan. We rented a car again and drove over with Okanotv and Moe Style. Our first stop was Eiheiji temple, one of Japan's largest Buddhist training temples. You can walk through the buildings and watch the monks around you cleaning, praying, and even gathering for chants.
We're not supposed to take pictures of the monks so we wanted to protect their privacy, but their chanting was incredible to hear and I've never seen anything like it!
The temple costs 500 yen to get into and there was a bilingual monk at the entrance who handed us pamphlets with information and rules and answered our questions. They treat everyone who visits as if you're a religious student, and you can actually make reservations to practice your meditation there, which Chris did once in the past. It was a really peaceful place and I'd love to live nearby!
So far Japan's Buddhist temples are honestly some of my favorite spots in the country. Kegonji, which is closer to where we live, is one of my favorite places in the country to go and we've been there quite a few times. It's also a beautiful temple surrounded by forests with a pilgrimage trail up through the mountains behind it. It's one of my dreams to hike one of Japan's Buddhist pilgrimage trails one day.
We're going to be traveling for the next 2+ months straight so videos might be a little slower for the time being, but by the time this is all done later this year we'll have traveled from the northern to southern tips of the country and should have a lot of new experiences to share with you guys!
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