[Date & Time] Saturday, October 5, at 11:00~16:40[Spots] Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, Hasedera Temple, and Kotokuin Temple (Great Buddha)
[Visitors] 77 JICA participants from 45 countries
[Attendants] 26 KSGG members
[Languages] English and Spanish
We, 3 KSGG members, guided 11 participants from 9 countries. They got eager to take photos around the Second Torii Gate. They seemed to want to take pictures of everything they saw. In front of Taiko Bashi Bridge, they actively took pictures of a family who paid a visit to the shrine for Shichi-go-san cerebration (Seven-five-three festival), which made me feel how excited they were. After purifying their hands at chozuya (water-filled basin), they saw a Shinto-style wedding at Maiden. After they worshiped, they bought omikuji (paper fortune), excited about the near future written on the slip of fortune telling paper in the near future. At Hasedera Temple, they saw A Thousand Statutes of Jizo, Evil Protection Amida, and Hase Kannon attentively.