Namba Yasaka Shrine
When traveling to another country I like to wander around and see what I’ll find. On the last day of trip to Osaka my friends and I wanted to kill time before we had to board our bus back to Tokyo. So we started to walk around and follow these well carved statues and ended up at a shrine. However, we were shrine and templed out, so there was not much excitement until we saw this huge stone carving. It was amazing because it looks so alive despite having a shrine in its mouth. There was a sign nearby that read Namba Yasaka Shrine. We took our pictures and I said what a cool dragon’s head. Then my friend said it was a lion’s head. The debate went on, until we looked it up on our phones to settle this dispute. It seems that it is a lion’s head and I was wrong. Still there is something about this carving that was mesmerizing.