Fukusai-ji, in Nagasaki, might win the award for the coolest thing I've seen in Japan. It's a crazy space age Zen temple that was orginally built in 1628, destroyed on August 9th, 1945, and then rebuilt in 1979. It houses the world's third largest Foucault pendulum that starts in the goddess Kannon's head and ends in the temple basement. Everything about it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy as we (the temple and I) are about the same age. It has a cool nerdy scientist meets the cast of Free to Be You and Me kind of vibe. Plus, the woman that looks after it is totally crazy in two languages, which is rad. She is def my new fave.
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