The Magic Of Miyajima, Japan

"Miyajima, an island of shrines and temples near Hiroshima, is one of the three most beautiful places in Japan. That's not my loosely tossed opinion, or anyone else's -- it's official. It was decided in 1643 by a wandering Confucian scholar named Shunsai Hayashi and apparently is not open to debate. (The other two are Matsushima in Miyagi and Amanohashidate in Kyoto.)

You get to Miyajima (the name means 'shrine island') by a short ferry ride, and the first thing you see is a towering red-orange torii gate, one of the world's largest, which seems to float on the water. (At least it does when the tide is in. Otherwise it rises out of the mudflats.)"

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