Japan is Back!
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, January, 1999 by Robert Fisher
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On a little hill next to Tokyo's Capitol Tokyu Hotel, a few minutes' walk from the Diet (Parliament) of Japan and the prime minister's residence, the Hie Shrine is one of Japan's most ancient and important religious sites open to the public. There, on a recent weekday, I watched a splendidly dressed Shinto priest, his white silken sleeves drooping nearly to the ground, as he waved a wand of white paper streamers over a shiny automobile. He was blessing a new Toyota brought to the shrine for that purpose by its owner.
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Japan is very different from other nations you have visited; but for all its exotic features, the supermodernity of the country makes your trip an easy and comfortable one. You'll see Buddhist temples with their saffron-robed monks, other Shinto shrines bustling with red-and-white-clad acolytes, ordinary citizens in their gorgeous native costumes, ...
