In Kamakura

Me and Brandon took a quick two-day jaunt to Kamakura, thanks to the advantagest of the "Kamakura Free Kippu", a ticket that goes round trip from Chiba City to Kamakura and back, allowing unlimited travel on trains within Kamakura for the two days.

One of our stops was Hasedera, a temple in the Hase district of town known for it's really old Kannon statue that purportedly washed up from the ocean some eight hundred years ago. It's a beautifully laid-out temple and enjoys perhaps the best view of the ocean of all the places I know of in Kamakura, owing to the fact that it snakes along the side of a steep hill overlooking the shoreline.

Anyway, at the temple, if you go in, you might get the opportunity to gain mucho-karma. By spining one of these babies around (it works much like an old fashioned, by-hand grain mill), you gain the same amount of karma as you would if you'd read every one of the sutras (=scriptures) inside.