Thursday, June 14, 2012

Love for sale at Tokyo's most romantic shrines

by Gail Nakada

We all know it -- Tokyo's so-called ?cool factor? draws travelers eager to explore the quixotic mixture of traditional and pop culture that defines the city and its people, we're told. So much yadda yadda, we say right back.

What if you've come here looking for something else? Like, say, romance? Steady now ...

Forget the sticky back alleys of Shinjuku's Kabukicho or rowdy Center Gai street in Shibuya. Instead, take your lonely heart and do with it what the Japanese do -- go to the shrine. But not just any shrine.

A Love Shrine.

Love shrines have nothing to do with those charge-by-the-hour temples to Eros crowded onto the hills of Shibuya.

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Source: http://rss.cnngo.com/~r/cnngo/~3/0Sz5ifbmLOk/endless-love-tap-tokyos-most-romantic-shrines-625189

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