Kamiarizuki

I spent all morning and the better part of the afternoon on the Shinkansen from Hakata to Okayama, and a highway express bus from Okayama to Izumo-shi to witness all the kami in Japan congregating at Izumo Taisha (go look up “kannazuki”on the internet).  All the gods were with me, as all the ticketing and connections worked out perfectly, though it did take a while to find the Misdo in JR Hakata-eki.  Spent about ten minutes wandering around then finally asked the information booth girl.  Turns out it is right next to the shinkansen gates, so if I looked for that, I’d have found the donuts incidentally.  The ceremony had lots of fire.  The rainy weather let up just in time for the ceremony to commence, and the stars and moon came out.