Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.
Diana Robinson
Besides garden/parks, shrines are little oases of peace in Japan. Usually well-worth a visit.
Many also offer to commemorates the visit with a stamp (and writing), showing (usually) the shrine name and the date of the visit.
There are specialized books to collect these stamps, and they should not be treated like tourist stamps:
Over time, you can collect some very beautiful stamps as reminders:
I just wished I had written some notes on each particular shrine to remember them better.
But yeah, beautiful almost «gamification» like idea …