On October 24th we went to downtown Nishinomiya City to pick up our Alien Registration cards. On our way there we saw a sign for a shrine nearby. Since we had extra time before the office closed we decided to go check it out.

The main shrine building.

Stone lantern (found throughout the shrine grounds).

Stone Statue in Shrine garden area.

Man praying at a small shrine in the garden.

Old bridge at garden entrance.

In the garden area there was a large pond with coy in it. There were also some plastic cranes and other animals put there as decorations. We didn't realize that the turtles weren't decorations, but that they were real. So when some of them started to move it was a little freaky. It was sun bathing time when we got there.

A pyramid of turtles sun-bathing.