Diary: Hieizan Enryaku-ji temple and Daimonji Bonfire(August 16)

Today it was beautiful day! And ...my last day of O-bon break. :(

The Obon week in mid August is one of Japan's 3 major holiday seasons in Japan.
I got get 1 5 days off from 12th to the 16th August this year.

Today, I went to Kyoto and visited the Hieizan Enryaku-ji temple in Shiga prefecture with Taiwanese and Korean friends today. The Enryaku-ji temple is a World Cultural Heritage Site. I wanted to visit there. At First we took the ropeway to the top of Mt. Hiei. A and we saw the a nice view of Lake Biwa. It was beautiful. :) And then Finally 2 , we went to the were at the Enryaku-ji temple. It was nice.

After we went Tonight, back to in Kyoto, we saw the Daimonji Gozan Okuribi( bonfire). The bonfire is an annual event held on the evening of August 16th every year and that was originated several hundreds of years ago. Fires are lit at the end of the Obon period to send ancestors' spirits back at the end of Obon period.  We can see five of the There are five Okuribi in Kyoto.

I took this picture. This is the character of "大 dai" (meaning "large""big") on Mt. Daimonji. :)

Wish I could be there!

1.  I assume the dates of the holidays are fixed.  So it must be in present tense.

2.  This is because you used "first" a few sentences back.