That's funny that you say they can't recognise shrine from temples. Shrines always have a (usually) big red torii. Check the picture below (here the entrance of the Fushimi Inari Taisha which I was speaking about). I have only heard of one temple that also had a torii. It's the Shi-Tenno-ji a Osaka (one of the oldest temples in Japan).
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