Sacred Places
21 places found
ShintoAmatsu Shrine
Itoigawa · Japan · shrine
A venerable jinja in the Ichinomiya quarter of Itoigawa on Japan's Sea of Japan coast, one of three shrines that each claim to have been the ichinomiya, the foremost shrine, of the old province of Echigo.
ShintoFujisaki Hachimangū
Kumamoto · Japan · shrine
Fujisaki Hachimangū is a Shinto shrine in the heart of Kumamoto's Chūō ward, enshrining Hachiman as Emperor Ōjin together with Empress Jingū and the Sumiyoshi Sanjin, and revered for over a thousand years as guardian kami of the Higo region.
ShintoFushimi Inari Taisha
Kyoto · Japan · shrine
The head shrine of Japan's roughly 30,000 Inari shrines, where some 10,000 vermilion torii climb sacred Mount Inari and white fox messengers watch every path.
ShintoHiraoka Shrine
Higashiosaka · Japan · shrine
The Ichinomiya, or foremost shrine, of the old province of Kawachi, set on the wooded western slope of the Ikoma range, where the ancestral kami of the Fujiwara clan were worshipped centuries before two of them were carried east to found Nara's Kasuga Taisha.
ShintoHiroshima Gokoku Shrine
Hiroshima · Japan · shrine
A Shinto shrine within the grounds of Hiroshima Castle honouring the war dead of Hiroshima, destroyed in the atomic bombing of 1945 and rebuilt by the city's own citizens in the years that followed.
ShintoIse Jingu (Ise Grand Shrine)
Ise · Japan · shrine
The most venerable sanctuary of Shinto: 125 shrines in the forests of Ise, where Amaterasu-Omikami dwells at the Naiku and Toyouke-Omikami at the Geku, and the whole sanctuary is rebuilt anew every twenty years.
ShintoIwa Shrine
Shiso · Japan · shrine
Iwa Shrine, Iwa Jinja, stands among old cedar groves in the hills of Shiso, Hyogo Prefecture, the Ichinomiya, or foremost shrine, of the old province of Harima. Its kami is Okuninushi no Mikoto, the great land-builder of Japanese myth, worshipped here alongside Sukunabikona no Kami and Shitateru-hime no Kami.
ShintoKatō Shrine
Kumamoto · Japan · shrine
Katō Shrine stands within the grounds of Kumamoto Castle, a Shinto sanctuary honouring the kami of Katō Kiyomasa, the daimyō who built the castle, alongside two retainers who followed him in death.
ShintoKengun Shrine
Kumamoto · Japan · shrine
Kengun Shrine is the oldest Shinto sanctuary in Kumamoto City, approached by an 800-metre avenue of cedar and linked by sacred lineage to the great Aso Shrine.
ShintoKikuchi Shrine
Kikuchi · Japan · shrine
A Meiji-era Shinto shrine in Kikuchi, Kumamoto, raised on the grounds of the old Kikuchi castle to honour three loyalist lords of the Kikuchi clan as kami.
ShintoKotohira-gū
Kotohira · Japan · shrine
A Shinto shrine on the slopes of Mount Zōzu in Kagawa, reached by a stone stairway of 785 steps, long venerated by sailors and fisherfolk as the guardian of safe passage at sea.
ShintoMeoto Iwa
Futami, Ise · Japan · sacred natural site
Two sea rocks bound by a great rope of twisted rice straw rise from the tide off Futami's shore, honoured in Shinto as Izanagi and Izanami, the first married kami, with a small torii marking the larger rock as a gateway to the sacred.