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Wish tunnel

Updated: 2007-05-08 08:57

A woman crawls out of a wish tunnel at Yasui Konpiragu Shrine in Kyoto, west of Tokyo May 7, 2007. At the over 800-year-old Yasui Konpiragu Temple, some 40,000 visitors a year -- mainly women -- crawl into the wish tunnel, pray and make money offerings as part of "enriki" rites to strengthen or sever ties with their husband or lover.