Soon it was time to leave and look for the Shrine of the Japanese Engineer. Facing the pool from the concrete steps, walk in the direction towards the right to reach the shrine. Previously, I took the route on the left and its not possible from this direction.
Crossing a small concrete, narrow, cement platform will lead to the start of a climb up slope. As depicted in photo 2 and 3. It's not too steep, still, make sure not to let the small roots and growth catch your ankles. You don't want to have a nasty sprain in a place like this. Although, I watch a lot of Youtube videos on how to get to the shrine, nevertheless, I am still a bit unsure at the actual site. Fortunately, previous hikers and explorers were kind enough to tie plastic ribbons (see photo 2) to indicate which way to go.
The climb up is not too difficult but do look out for migrating ants on the ground. They can crawl up your legs and give nasty bites. After navigating through some fallen tree trunks along the way (See photo 3) we reached a flight of steps made of bricks. The inscription on the bricks reads Alexandra. Online sources says they were probably from Alexandra Brickworks. At the top of it stood the shrine. There were inscriptions on the pillar in Chinese identifying the tomb as belonging to Mr Komoto Ekasa who was an engineer with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Online sources says he died at the age of 47.
The tomb is actually quite close to the top of Mt Faber where the cable car station is. No one would have imagined there is a tomb on its slope, as this area of Mt Faber is heavily wooded. Blocking the existence of the shrine from view. There it probably remained undiscovered for many years.
From Seah Im bunker to the forgotten reservoir and the shrine took us about 2 hours. This brought us to the close of our little adventure :)
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