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Shinto sacred sites in Japan
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Komakino Stone Circle
Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Four thousand years ago, Jomon communities leveled a hilltop and arranged nearly three thousand stones in a configuration so distinctive that archaeologists named it the...
Konno Hachiman-gu Shrine
3-chōme-5-12 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Konno Hachiman-gu Shrine (金王八幡宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...
Kotohira shrine, Kotohira, Japan
Kotohira, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
On sacred Mount Zozu rises Japan's most beloved guardian of sailors. For centuries, fishermen and naval crews, merchants and mariners have climbed up to 1,368 stone steps...
Koyasu Shrine
Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
Koyasu Shrine (子安神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Kumano Hayatama Taisha
Shingū, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Kumano Hayatama Taisha stands at the mouth of the Kumano River where it meets the sea, one of three grand shrines that have drawn pilgrims for over a millennium....
Kumano Hongū Taisha
Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
For over a thousand years, every path of the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage has led here....
Kumano-Nachi Grand Shrine
Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
One of the three great Kumano shrines, Kumano Nachi Taisha rises on Mt. Nachi above Japan's tallest waterfall....
Matsunoo-taisha Shrine
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Mountain water and the kami honored by generations of brewers. Matsunoo-taisha Shrine remains an active Shinto shrine....
Meiji Shrine
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Rising from the heart of Tokyo, Meiji Shrine offers one of the world's most dramatic sacred thresholds....
Meoto Iwa
Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan
Two rocks rise from the sea at Futami, joined by a massive shimenawa rope weighing over one ton....
Mitsumine Jingu (Mitsumine Grand Shrine)
Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
High in the Chichibu mountains, Mitsumine Shrine guards nearly two thousand years of worship at a place where wolves once guided a lost prince to safety....
Miyajima Island
Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
The vermilion torii gate rising from the Seto Inland Sea is one of Japan's most recognized images....
Mount Miwa
Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, Japan
Mount Miwa does not house a deity. The mountain is the deity. This 467-meter peak in the Nara Basin represents the oldest stratum of Japanese spirituality, a form of...
Mt. Aso
Minamiaso, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Mount Aso rises at the heart of Kyushu, its vast caldera containing farms, towns, and one of Japan's oldest shrines—all within the rim of a volcano that last erupted in...
Mt. Atago
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Rising 924 meters above Kyoto, Mount Atago has guarded the ancient capital from fire for over 1,300 years....
Mt. Nantai
Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Mount Nantai rises 2,486 meters above the sacred landscape of Nikko, its near-perfect volcanic cone worshipped as the physical body of a kami since before recorded history....
Munakata Taisha
Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Munakata Taisha, stands in Munakata. At Munakata Taisha, Shinto guides custody. Prayer at Munakata Taisha addresses Tagorihime, Tagitsuhime, and Ichikishimahime....
Musashi Mitake Shrine
Ome, Tokyo, Japan
Musashi Mitake Shrine (武蔵御嶽神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...
Namiyoke Shrine
Chuo City, Tokyo, Japan
Namiyoke Shrine (波除神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Nezu Shrine
Bunkyo City, Tokyo, Japan
Nezu Shrine (根津神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference evidence,...
Nikkō Tōshō-gū
Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Nikko Toshogu is the mausoleum and shrine of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the warlord who unified Japan and founded a dynasty that ruled for 300 years of peace....
Nogi Shrine
Minato City, Tokyo, Japan
Nogi Shrine (乃木神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference evidence,...
Ōji Inari Shrine
Kita City, Tokyo, Japan
Ōji Inari Shrine (王子稲荷神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Oji Shrine
Kita City, Tokyo, Japan
Oji Shrine (王子神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference evidence,...
Okinoshima Island, Japan
Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
In the waters between Japan and Korea lies an island so sacred that women may never set foot on it, men may visit only one day per year after nude ocean purification, and...
Ōkunitama Shrine
Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
Ōkunitama Shrine (大國魂神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Omiya Hachiman-gu
Suginami City, Tokyo, Japan
Omiya Hachiman-gu (大宮八幡宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Ōmori Katsuyama Stone Circle
Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Three thousand years ago, the Jomon people positioned this stone circle with extraordinary precision: on the shortest day of the year, the setting sun descends directly...
Ono Shrine
Ichinomiya, Tokyo, Japan
Ono Shrine (武蔵國一之宮小野神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Ono-Terusaki Shrine
Taito City, Tokyo, Japan
Ono-Terusaki Shrine (小野照崎神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Ōyu Stone Circles
Kazuno, Akita Prefecture, Japan
On a plateau above the Oyu River in northern Japan, two stone circles have watched the summer solstice sun set along the same axis for 4,000 years....
Sakafuneishi Site
Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan
In the hills of Asuka, Japan's ancient capital, water once flowed through a turtle-shaped stone basin in ceremonies conducted for Empress Saimei nearly fourteen centuries...
Sannai-Maruyama Site
Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
For seventeen centuries, the Jomon people lived at Sannai-Maruyama, cultivating chestnuts, trading jade across hundreds of kilometers, and building structures that still...
Setagaya Hachiman-gu
Setagaya City, Tokyo, Japan
Setagaya Hachiman-gu (世田谷八幡宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Shiba Daijingū
Minato City, Tokyo, Japan
Shiba Daijingū (芝大神宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Shiba-Toshogu Shrine
Minato City, Tokyo, Japan
Shiba-Toshogu Shrine (芝東照宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Shimogamo-jinja Shrine
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Kamo worship carried through Tadasu no Mori and ritual water. Shimogamo-jinja Shrine remains an active Shinto shrine....
Shinagawa Shrine
Shinagawa City, Tokyo, Japan
Shinagawa Shrine (品川神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Shōin Shrine
Setagaya City, Tokyo, Japan
Shōin Shrine (松陰神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference evidence,...
Sonohyan-utaki
Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
At the threshold of Shuri Castle, a coral limestone gate opens onto a sacred grove that cannot be entered....
Suitengu Shrine
Chuo City, Tokyo, Japan
Suitengu Shrine (水天宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Sumiyoshi Jinja
Chuo City, Tokyo, Japan
Sumiyoshi Jinja (住吉神社（佃）) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Sumiyoshi-taisha
Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
When Izanagi purified himself in the sea after his journey to the underworld, three deities emerged from the waters—the Sumiyoshi Sanjin, gods of the sea who have...
Susanō Shrine
Arakawa City, Tokyo, Japan
Susanō Shrine (素盞雄神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Suwa-taisha
Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Suwa-taisha predates shrine architecture itself. Four shrines encircle Lake Suwa in Nagano Prefecture, but their sacred objects are not artifacts—they are Mount Moriya and...
Tabata Stone Circle
Machida, Tokyo, Japan
Five minutes from a Tokyo train station, a ring of stones marks where Jomon peoples gathered three thousand years ago....
Takachiho Gorge
Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan
In this volcanic gorge where sheer basalt cliffs rise 80 meters above an emerald river, Japan's creation mythology takes physical form....
Tamatsukuri Onsen
Matsue, Shimane, Japan
Tamatsukuri Onsen follows the Tamayu River in Matsue.
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