Kiyomasa well

Along the approach to the shrine we stumbled upon a gate to a garden. Since my mother in law came all the way to visit us it's not bad to go with her to somewhere we have not been. I paid 1500 yen for admission for us three at the gate. We walked down a path moist with soft drizzle, admiring the green so amply left in the middle of the megalopolis. The narrow lane suddenly unfolded into an opening. Down the opening, a pond. At that moment the leaves glowed. Unexpected sunshine brightened the world. The place looked even more wide and open when we closed our umbrella. We walked up a slope along an out-of-season iris garden without flowers.

Then we came across a man in the uniform of a guard. He told us that to our left was the famous well supposedly dug by Kiyomasa Kato, a feudal lord in the age of warring states(戦国時代) and that we needed a numbered ticket to go there. I remembered the white tickets I was handed at the ticket counter together with the green entrance tickets. I fished the crumpled tickets out of my pocket and handed to him. As we walk toward the well, to our surprise, there was a long line of people waiting to go to the well. We joined the end of the line which were only sluggishly edging ahead.
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"Seems like it is worth waiting this long. But why?" After 5 minutes I said, to which my wife answered,
"I heard it's a power spot, but I'm not sure what it exactly is."
I left the line, began walking alone toward the well along the right side of the waiting line, the space made for returning people, past many of waiting people. It was just to see if it's worth seeing. Just as I went 20m or so a guard called out to me from behind.
"You should get in line, please."
I ignored him pretending not to hear him, and walked ahead until I got close enough to see the well. It was a small well from which water overflowed into a small stream. People were taking pictures and scooping water. It was enough information to decide it was not the worth. I was satisfied, took a picture (above) and turned around to go back to where my wife and my mother in law was waiting in the line. Then I met the guard who'd chided me.
"All the people here are waiting. So you must wait in line."
"I just wanted to see if it's worth waiting long."
"They have various purposes to wait in line. But they are waiting all the same."
"Ok, Ok I understand, sorry about that."
I got back to the girls and told them the well was not so much worthwhile to see. We left the line and walked back. My wife said
"According to the woman waiting in front of us, you can get a power if you take the picture of the well and put it on the standby screen of your cellphone. That's why it takes so long to see it. That's ridiculous."
It was when I said "Sure. Waiting for 30 minutes or so to see the small well is really stupid." that the guard caught up again from behind and said.
"I told you like that because of the people waiting there, but I privately think that you are right. It used to be a quiet place. Since someone had said stupidly that it is a power spot, so many people have been visiting that small well. I think something is wrong... But anyway I'm sorry about my impoliteness."
"You just did your job properly. You don't have to apologize." I said to him.
Something is wrong... Yes. Did all the people waiting in the line believe in the picture of the well in their mobile phones having a power? I can't believe it. On coming home, when I looked up the well in the Internet, there were thousands of articles about this power spot one of which even sells pictures of the well for your cellphone use.