Sunday, April 7, 2013

Guiding an Australian Man around Kawasaki

[Date & Time] Sunday, April 7, at 9:00~16:00
[Spots] Kanayama Shrine, Kawasaki Daishi Heikenji Temple, Watching Kanamara Festival, Ginryu-gai (the shopping street near Kawasaki Station), and Imai-Yu (public bath) in Motosumiyoshi
[Visitor] 1 Australian man (in his 20s, born in China.)
[Attendant] 1 KSGG member
[Languages] English and Chinese


 He requested our guiding via the website of KSGG, saying that he wanted to visit where he could feel a breath of Japanese life.  So we visited Kawasaki Daishi Heikenji Temple and listened to the prayer of Goma rite (Goma means “to burn”) by a priest in the hall of the Buddha.  Then we went to a local public bath similar to the one in a Japanese movie, Thermae Romae.  After soaking in a bath and washing our backs each other, I said to him, “At last we have a relationship naked” (which means that we have a completely open relationship), washing our backs each other.  He said, “This is just like the very public bath in Thermae Romae.