There are lots of temples in my city.
This temple belongs to a religious party called "Soto Shu".
Like in the premises of a shrine, there is a place called "Chouzuya".
We are supposed to wash our hands and mouth before offering a prayer.
This object is called "Maniguruma". 
By rolling it once, we offer the prayer inscribed in the roller.
This is a hearth where we put sticks of incense.When I'm asked by foreign people about where to visit in Japan, I often say "You should visit our temples and shrines". So I introduced the latter in the posting "Shrine" in September. And today let me show you what a temple is like.
A temple was a place where monks did ascetic training and it has a close relationship with "death" So we can see lots of tombs in the premises. While a shrine belongs to Shinto religion, each temple has a different religious party such as "Jodo Shu", "Tendai Shu", "Nichiren Shu","Shingon Shu" and so on.
And people are supposed to offer a prayer differently. What we should do in common are: 1. To wash our hands and mouth. 2. To throw money in the offertory box called "Saisen Bako". At a shrine we are supposed to shake the bells and clap our hands twice when we pray, but temples require us to pray in a different way according to which party the temple belongs to.
Though our junior high-school education tells us the difference between a shrine and each temple, I don't think all the Japanese people know it well.
