More pictures from our short trip to Miyajima Island, Japan two weeks ago.

The view above, taken on the ferry ride over, doesn't show much detail, but does show the relative positions of a few landmarks, including the famous main gate of the Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社、宮島) almost a mile away, the smaller stone gate for the foot path to the shrine, and our hotel. (Mouseover the bold words in this paragraph to see the items highlighted in the photo.)

You can also see Mt. Misen in the center, which I posted about recently.

As you get a bit closer (and zoom up a lot further), the main gate stands out quite well, particularly when the tide is lower as it is in the next shot, at eight tenths of a mile away. The shrine itself is to the left. The smudges in between are people, which are fairly easy to see when you look at the bigger version. (As always, click on an image to see a larger version.).

It was a bright, partly-cloudy day, but when I looked back toward the mainland and exposed for the highlights, the result takes on a dark, foreboding look, but I love the rays of sunshine.

I took some similar photos in Kyoto after a typhoon had swept through.

Approaching the dock, I was impressed at how nice the area looked, neither industrial nor touristy.

The smaller stone gate at the left in the shot above is for the land approach. It doesn't look smaller in the photo because it's half the distance of the other one. The shot was taken from right in front of our hotel (Kinsuikan Inn — 錦水館).

At low tide, you can get way out onto the intertidal zone, although in the shot below, I'm only 30m out because I had sort'a nice shoes on.

The path along the water is quite nice. We saw one view in my Miyajima Bench post. Here's a view from the intertidal zone, replete with wild deer grazing on the green seaweed....

And a closer view....

And to augment some of the night shots I posted earlier, here's that path just before we took it to attend the Kousuke Atari concert.

And from a bit further down, a few hours of rising tide later....

And finally, a somewhat similar view during a daytime high-ish tide.....

Continued here...