Three Weddings in a Day
Where can you experience such a unique and blissful experience? In Japan, of course! However, you should always visit the grandest Shinto shrine in Tokyo, the Meiji Shrine. If you are lucky, you would get to photograph the whole wedding procession with brides in different costumes and family portraits in the making. To be honest, the first time I saw it, I really thought that it was a graduation ceremony. So, let us all walk into the world of this shrine.
The Meiji Shrine edifice was built in 1920 which was in honour of the Emperor Meiji and his Empress Shoken, who brought Japan out into the open, away from isolation which plagued them for the longest time. The original shrine was destroyed during the bombings of World War II and was reconstructed in 1958. It has 100000 trees surrounding the location and was donated by visitors from all over Japan. In order to reach the main Shrine, one has to walk quite a distance inwards, but the surroundings are peaceful and the air is fresh. Idyllic.
The reconstruction is very authentic to say the least, as they used hinoki cypress from Kiso, Nagano prefecture for the main structure and the cypress for the torii was imported from Alishan, Taiwan.
There is also a garden for leisure walks and strolls within the area of the shrine. But to visit it, visitors have to pay extra and queue in line.
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