I was fortunate to stumble across a few abandoned/semi-abandoned shrines while in Japan recently. Going early Spring is great, because the mosquitoes aren't out in full force yet, and I only got buzzed a couple of times by those scary suzumebachi (killer hornets)!
I imagine there are all kinds of little creatures lurking under those leafs. Reminds me that I have one roll of Rollei 400 left and need to get more. Trying to decide which camera to run the roll through is the big problem.