Another expedition temple hunting sort of went backwards. Emerging from the Shinagawa station - 190 yen on the Yamanote line - we were confonted by the most mind blowing modern complex of sky scrapers you could hope to see. Complete with a sort of park-cum-pedestrian plaza between the glass and steel canyons.
But, we were hard on the trail for some temples - that's when our feet started to complain. We sort of got lost until a very kind postman came to the rescue by pointing out that we were at least 1 km away from where we thought we were. I have no idea how far we walked through Minami Shinagawa districts. Yes, we did see the old Edo era post town styled streets but the temples we found were sad looking.
The Ebarajinja Shrine was worth the effort of climbing the two flights of steps.
The Shinagawa station eventually loomed on the horizon and we returned to it's resurant fill bosom. Ah, the welcome taste of noodles, soup and whatever-it-was!
Suitably refreshed we returned to the Yamanote line payed our 190 yen and made for home.
It's better to travel than arrive ... then again ...