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temple and shrine offers Talismans for its visitors, personal predictions
for the future. There are all sorts of lucky charms for cars, health, employment etc as well as souvenirs to jar the memory |
The typical roof-shape of a Shinto shrine |
Inside a classic Tea House; - for a small charge you can participate
in a typical Japanese Tea Ceremony The old tradition is still popular with both young and old |
Here I got to see a fully-automatic rice-planter in action for the first
time A robot-arm grasps the small seedlings grown in greenhouses and plants them in precise locations in the paddy Therefore workers are spared the pain of a crooked back ! |
The most up-to-date technology is also found in the so-called business-hotels They even have electronically-controlled toilet seats with built-in bidet, heater, dryer etc. |
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