Thanks Nikki, it's always a balance between capturing the photos you want and actually engaging with and experiencing the places we go isn't it 🙂

I wish I'd learned Japanese at school Meg, I find it really hard to learn more than the absolute basics now. It's not that I can't remember a vocab list it's twisting your mind to form the whole structure of the language differently that escapes me. If you went with a school trip or local family I'm sure you would have gone to Daisho-in, what fun to have that experience of another country as a teenager but I would definitely recommend it as an adult too 🙂

Would love to get back to Japan though and really experience it as an adult - so much cultural significance which I missed as a young teenager 🙂

Thanks Hugo, we love a little bit of wildlife in our travels. You can sometimes see monkeys on the Mt Misen trail that starts next to the temple too.

Thanks Dana, I liked that while the temple has such a long and prestigious history they still don't take themselves too seriously to make visitors smile

Thanks Tammy, we thought they were super adorable 🙂

Thanks Stacey, we really enjoyed both our visits to the island. The shrine is amazing. Did you get the chance to climb or take the cable car up Mt Misen?