Tanigumi Temple
Over the past two years we have really mined out most of the local, easy-to-do day trips in the area. So, imagine our pleasant surprise when a group of friends took us out to this temple one day last weekend.
Not more than an hour from our home it was a sanctuary. In the mountains, surrounded by all the green that I so often find myself missing here in the concrete-wonderland that is Gifu city. With only a month left here in Japan, I am sad that we only discovered it just now, so thankful that we did discover it, and wondering how many other things are just around the corner that we may never know.
Behind the temple there was an area where you would get a little sheet of paper, dip it into water and apply it to the part of the statue where you needed healing.
Tanigumi temple is the last temple on a pilgrimage route and at the end people leave behind their pilgrimage attire and books.
We have no idea why the tanigumis at this temple were covered in rocks, but we couldn’t help but add some more to the stack.