One of the things one should do when vacationing in Japan is to collect stamps at tourists attractions. The idea is to go to each attraction and get yourself a stamp showing you have been there.
This activity originates from religious pilgrims who would travel all over Japan visiting temples and they would get their prayer book stamped at each temple they visited. Nowadays, you can find these stamps not only in temples, but in tourist centres (Folake tourism center in Tazawako comes to mind), buildings (such as Metropolitan Government Office), museums, zoos, on trains (the steam locomotive Ban-Etsu Monogatari-go), well almost everywhere if you care to look for it.
This activity originates from religious pilgrims who would travel all over Japan visiting temples and they would get their prayer book stamped at each temple they visited. Nowadays, you can find these stamps not only in temples, but in tourist centres (Folake tourism center in Tazawako comes to mind), buildings (such as Metropolitan Government Office), museums, zoos, on trains (the steam locomotive Ban-Etsu Monogatari-go), well almost everywhere if you care to look for it.
JR (Japan Railways) has a stamp rally thingy going on while we were in Japan, with 77 train stations with unique stamps for you to go around Tokyo to collect it. Being a train nut, Zaini would've attempted to collect all 77 stamps if we were not pressed for time. If the stamp rally is still on-going next year, you bet he will try and complete his collection!
The two boys having fun stamping away.
Some random stamps Zaini collected (not necessarily on the 77 train stations routes) :
They are kinda cool to collect, don't you agree?
More random stamps in our collection:
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