Summer Holiday - Miyajima Island

Miyajima Island is an island off Hiroshima that is most famous for its shine to the Goddess of the Ocean.  It makes for an extremely picturesque and unique shrine which, during high tide, is suspended above water on stilts.  The timbers and flooring are also designed to 'float' should there ever be a higher tide than normal.

Also, they have the usual 'gate' or 'Torii' out in the bay in the water.  With the backdrop of the shrine, and the mountains of the island itself, it's got to be one of the nicest places to photograph, and simply gets more gorgeous during sunset.