October 12, 2025 · 8:50 pm
Completely one among my oddest finds ever within the Florida Keys! WOW, speak about sudden misplaced this was! That is really the 2nd Japanese torii gate within the Keys, the primary one BLEW ME AWAY! It’s stumbling upon points of interest like this that make what I achieve this rewarding… “I NEVER know what superior sudden new discovered treasure is across the subsequent nook”… and I LOVE IT! Look shut on the picture under, there’s a bench dealing with the ocean to sit down upon to go with your tranquil quest! 🙂
A torii is a standard Japanese gate mostly discovered on the entrance of or inside a Shinto shrine, the place it symbolically marks the transition from the profane to the sacred. They’re nevertheless a typical sight at Japanese Buddhist temples too, the place they stand on the entrance of the temple’s personal shrine. Their first look in Japan could be reliably pinpointed to at the least the mid-Heian interval as a result of they’re talked about in a textual content written in 922.
You’ll find this Japanese torii gate on the campus of the Florida Keys Neighborhood School simply outdoors of Key West at one among its two entrances at Mile Marker 5.0 & 4.3 onto the horseshoe-shaped School Highway. Drive down the street about 1/2 mile from both entrance and there or not it’s behind by the Tennessee Williams Theater.
