When you enter it ypu can see a well. That was kinda surprise for me. Isn't it just a temple? No, that is something that can be found everywhere in Japan. In the Edo-period Buddhism and Shintô (original religion of Japan) where combined to a new religion called Shinbutsu-Shûgô. But after the Meiji-Restauration in 1868 the two religions were seperated again.
The reasons for this would be to long to explain here. I can just say that ist is because of the belonging of the religions. The Shintô belongs to the Tennô. In the Meiji-Restauration the Tennô gained his power back and so the Shintô got more important (just one reason). If you are interested in some more information you might find it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_perioad

Here is the picture of the well:

And now it got more interesting! We went inside a different building. After going up a few stairs we arrived infront of a great room. But coming later to that :)
First of all we inlighted incense sticks and a candle. That's for you can say the gods of the Buddhism (Of course there are no gods in the central Buddhism).
At this points we weren't allowed to take pictures any more :(

But now the interesting room:
A big Buddha statue was in it. It was unbelivable big and great :D It isn't so old. The construction began in 1988 and ended 4 years later. It is made of many trees and set togesther later. The statue is 10,8 m high and 30 t heavy. That is the biggest Kannon Buddha of merca (seating Buddha) in whole Japan. It is really impressive!
Behind that Buddha on the wall are 50 000 little Buddha. Everything is handmade!
That must be really hard work.
Of couse we prayed infront of the statue:) Now it was the praying type of the Shintô (ringing a bell, throw money in a box, 2 handclaps and that pray) Afterwards we bought this little papers you can normally get in shrines where you can read somethng about your future. But it is only to the end of the year ^^
I got a middle one..You can't be the luckies one all the time ;)
Ryu-san got the best :D

Now going on we went into a kind of exebition and praying room. Don't miss that! On the right wall are picture which show how the big Buddha was built. I wanted so much to take pictures of it!
Yeah I'm really a Japnese ^^. But here are we foreigners the japanese people. Really all the foreigners are walking all over the time with their cameras. The Japanese don't. Who would have imagined it?! So for everyone we foreigners are the new all the time-pictures-making-japanese :D

Also there were many other statues in that room. A few small Buddhas for example.
After that great experience (one of the best temple I've ever seen) we headed to the next temple in Hakata: The Jotenji !
But that will be the next entry :)