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Not just walking, but going to temples and shrines.
I'm not a religious person, its just that there is so much history and so many stories in these old temples and shrines that its fun to go there. And there are often explanation boards at these kinds of places or pamphlets at the temple or shrine offices.
And there is also a certain flavor to the old buildings and the Buddhist statues and the larger temples and shrines have a lot of greenery so even when you're in the middle of the city, the air there seems cleaner.
I didn't have any interest in them before but after deciding on a theme and taking walks following it, I began to notice places that I had failed to see before. I made new discoveries every time and places that I thought I knew before started to look completely different.
Its like a nearby fantasy world.
今週の語彙 This week's vocabulary
語彙
■身近な near oneself, familiar ■宗教的な religious ■謂われ oral history ■伝説legend, folklore ■案内板 Explanation board ■仏像 Buddhist statue ■味わい flavor ■まるで～ない ぜんぜん～ない not at all ■見落とす to fail to notice, to miss seeing ■目が行く be attracted one’s attention, notice
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