A few weeks back I was unicycling up northwest of Iizaka-Onsen, which is a city about a 25-minute train ride north of Fukushima. While heading down the narrow mountain highway I came across a little rest area, so I pulled in to give my legs some rest. I quickly realized that I had pulled into the rest area the exhibited the wonders of a Japanese fertility shrine.

It’s pretty rockin’, if I do say so myself. There was also some other stuff about going across a rickity bridge over a river, but the giant red penis was vastly more exciting than anything else on the trip.

Now that I’ve found that shrine it has come to my attention that there are fertility festivals in other regions of Japan, so now I have more stuff on my checklist of what to do here.

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