This time I tried to learn something I never knew then I decided to visit here, “Zenkozi” in “Hirano”. Lots of old-Japanese style buildings and townscapes still remain there, and what I had research was in there. This place is kind of famous for mysterious hell touring.
It looked ordinary before the gate, but I got something pretty interesting even for the Japanese me inside there. What came in my sight at first was a tiny “Oni” (means like an ogre or a devil). That bit amazed me because basically we don’t see the “Oni” sort of things in regular temples in Japan. According to the chief priest there, the temple teaches people what heaven and hell are like and how to get judged to go to either, and he also said “by seeing “Zigokudo”(means hell), you’re going to get some direction to go to heaven after dead”.
This is a request from the temple to parents which says in short “this is just to tell children the importance of life and not to do bad things, and Don’t use it to scared children in terms of education” 
Inside of “Zigokudo”, you can see “Enmadaiou” (a god judging which people to go, heaven or hell), “Oni”, and Buddha- like dolls. When you push the button or hit the bell below “Enmadaiou”, hell story begins in the weird place. The story was mainly about several brutal tortures to punish someone who did bad thing during they were alive and what the children who died before their parents die are going to take from “Oni”. It is said, in the hell, if the children who died before their parents die want to see the parents again, they have to pile up rocks to some level of height, but “Oni” is monitoring them doing through whole way, then the time they nearly reach at the end, “Oni” pops up to them and ruin their effort. “Oni” makes them do so over and over.
It says “If you press the button, then hell starts” I doubt it.
Did you press the button?
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