entry nº 18 // 20180208
shoko + i took a trip to saga prefecture back in fall 2017. just a day trip, right? it’s not far from here: about an hour or so. next prefecture over. we’ve been a couple times before for various reasons, but this time we went to TAKEO SHRINE and the SAGA PREFECTURAL SCIENCE AND SPACE MUSEUM.
[this is an old one, + i’m still playing catch-up on old entries here, so i’ll let the photos speak for themselves. but to summarize, or for those of you who don’t have image viewing capacity on your browsers: 3000-year-old tree, bells, big telescope, the color green, late afternoon sunlight.]
1. shrine entrance torii gate 
2. “husband and wife” cypress trees; rope adorned w/ thousands of bells 
3. 3,000+ y/o “OHKUSU” camphor tree 
4. another angle 
5. looking great up top, too 
6. got to look at the moon through this bad boy 
7. science center observatory from outside