Sensō-ji is an ancient Buddhist temple located in Asakusa, Tokyo. It is the city’s oldest temple, and one of its most significant.
Within the temple itself, and at many places on its approach, there are omikuji stalls. For a suggested donation of 100 yen, visitors may consult the oracle and divine answers to their questions.
Querents shake labelled sticks from enclosed metal containers and read the corresponding answers they retrieve from one of 100 possible drawers.
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Id say this would be a really cool thing to do, I wonder do they get it right
I heard Jim Zorn made a special trip to the oracle for Dallas Week!
I remember the wishes on white papers you can wrap around in some temples. Good Japan memories!
I enjoyed your pictures very much! I’ve always wanted to go to Japan!
I am going to Japan and I need th help of people to make that trip. My son and I are learning japanise. He is doing much bett than me. He has made a CD. to help raise money for our trip. One song that I love is Hard Times. I would like to invite everyone to hear it. You can do that by going to myspace.com/mcbent. Its not that I don’t like the others but that one tell the story of what we have had to deal with for the last year. I am thankful now things are much better.