Quiet day and local shrine - Mar 23

Yesterday Dave developed a cold. We went to a pharmacy and got some cold medicine, with Sean's help, then waited until morning in Canada and phoned the kidney clinic to check if he could take it (he could). This morning we got up late and went to the restaurant complex near Akasaka subway to get breakfast, and whiled away some time, and went for coffee at Tulley's. This was all to give the staff time to clean our hotel room. Came back to the clean room and Dave laid down.
I got bored so went out to visit our local Shinto shrine. As you can see from the two tori gates to it, it is now located among a lot of high rise office buildings. It is the Hie Jinja shine and has been around forever, moved to its present location in 1659 by shogun Tokugawa. It was burned down in the 1945 bombing of Tokyo and rebuilt in 1958. So I'm not sure if it's old or new. I think it counts as old, because it is the same plan and the same place as before. Some shinto shrines are rebuilt every 20 years, as a part of the belief of the death and renewal of nature and the impermanence of all things and as a way of passing building techniques on to the next generation. Its surroundings definitely count as new.
I saw the wonderful escalator and was so pleased! It wasn't until I got to the top that I realized it only went up. There were two long escalators and one shorter one, so I had a lot of stairs to trudge down.