Japan

Goshono Site

Ichinohe, Iwate Prefecture, Japan

For forty generations, Jomon communities gathered at this river terrace to tend their dead and feed their fires....

Gōtoku-ji

Setagaya City, Tokyo, Japan

Gōtoku-ji (大谿山 豪徳寺) is an active Sōtō Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Gumyō-ji

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Gumyō-ji, the Gumyōji Kannon, is the fourteenth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage and Yokohama's oldest temple....

Gyōgan-ji (Kōdō)

Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Gyōgan-ji (Kōdō) is station 19 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism, Miyako Shichifukujin temple in Kyoto dedicated to Senju Kannon....

Hakusan Shrine

Bunkyo City, Tokyo, Japan

Hakusan Shrine (白山神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Hanazono Shrine

Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan

Hanazono Shrine (花園神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Hanta-ji

Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Temple 50 of the Shikoku henro stands on a wooded hillside above southern Matsuyama, its Yakushi Nyorai principal image attributed by tradition to the wandering monk Gyōki....

Hase-dera

Sakurai, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Hase-dera in Kamakura is the fourth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho — a hillside temple above Yuigahama beach famous for its Eleven-Headed Kannon, a 9.18-metre gilded...

Hase-dera

Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Hase-dera is station 8 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon-shū Buzan-ha temple in Nara dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....

Hashidate-dō

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Hashidate-dō — Sekiryū-zan Hashidate-dō — is the 28th station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Sōtō Zen temple set beneath an eighty-metre limestone cliff in the...

Hatonomori Hachiman Shrine

Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Hatonomori Hachiman Shrine (鳩森八幡神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...

Hebikubo Shrine

Shinagawa City, Tokyo, Japan

Hebikubo Shrine (蛇窪神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Heian-jingū

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Kyoto’s imperial beginning and ending held in modern shrine space. Heian-jingū remains an active Shinto shrine....

Henshō-ji (Hōkai-in)

Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Henshō-ji, also known as Hōkai-in, sits at the base of wooded Kongōsan in northern Okayama City....

Hie Shrine

Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Hie Shrine (日枝神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference evidence,...

Higashi Hongan-ji

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Immense timber halls built for shared listening and nembutsu. Higashi Hongan-ji remains an active Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism, Ōtani-ha temple....

Higashi Hongan-ji

Taito City, Tokyo, Japan

Higashi Hongan-ji (東本願寺) is an active Jodo Shinshu Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....

Hiro Shrine

Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

At the base of Japan's tallest single-drop waterfall, Hirou Shrine offers something rare: direct worship of natural phenomenon....

Hiyoshi Taisha

Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

At the foot of sacred Mount Hiei, Hiyoshi Taisha has served as spiritual guardian for over two thousand years....

Hōchō-ji

Yokoze, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Hōchō-ji is the seventh station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage in Yokoze, Saitama....

Hōgon-ji

Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Hogon-ji is station 30 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon-shū Buzan-ha, Benzaiten devotion temple in Shiga dedicated to Senju Kannon....

Hōju-ji

Saijō, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Hōju-ji is the 62nd fudasho on the Shikoku 88, an 8th-century imperial foundation that has been moved at least four times—by flood, war, Meiji separation, and the...

Hōki-in

Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Hōki-in is station bangai-hoki-in on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism, Buzan branch temple in Nara dedicated to Kannon....

Hokki-ji

Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Hokki-ji, stands in Ikaruga. At Hokki-ji, Shōtoku-shū Buddhism guides custody. Prayer at Hokki-ji addresses the Buddhist teaching transmitted through Prince Shōtoku's...

Holy Resurrection Cathedral (Nikolai-do)

Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan

Holy Resurrection Cathedral (Nikolai-do) (東京復活大聖堂) is an active Japanese Orthodox Christianity sacred place in Tokyo....

Honsenji Temple

Shinagawa City, Tokyo, Japan

Honsenji Temple (品川寺) is an active Shingon Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...

Hōrin-ji

Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Hōrin-ji is the only temple among the Shikoku 88 whose principal image is a Parinirvana Shaka Nyorai—Shakyamuni at the threshold of nirvana, lying on his side....

Horyuji

Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan

The pagoda and main hall of Hōryū-ji have stood for over 1,300 years—the oldest surviving wooden structures on earth....

Hōsen-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Hōsen-ji is the twenty-fourth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage — a Rinzai Zen temple of the Nanzen-ji branch that, until the mid-19th century, was a Shugendō...

Hōshō-ji

Ogano, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Hōshō-ji — Hannya-san Hōshō-ji — is the 32nd station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, a Sōtō Zen mountain temple in Ogano set against a sandstone cliff....

Hosshinmon-oji

Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Hosshinmon-oji (発心門王子) is a major threshold marking entry into the divine precincts of Kumano Hongu Taisha on the Nakahechi section of the Kumano Kodo....

Hotsumisaki-ji

Muroto, Kochi Prefecture, Japan

Hotsumisaki-ji, Temple 24 of the Shikoku 88, sits on the cliffs of Cape Muroto. Below, in the Mikurodō Cave, the young Kūkai is said to have completed the Kokūzō...

Houki-in Temple

Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Hōki-in is the Mt. Kōya sub-temple charged each year with carrying fresh monastic robes to Kōbō Daishi at the Okunoin mausoleum, where Kūkai is believed to remain in...

Hōun-ji

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Hōun-ji — Zuiryū-san Hōun-ji — is the 30th station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, founded in 1319 by the Kamakura Zen master Dōin (Dōon) of Kenchō-ji....

Ichihata-ji

Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan

Ichihata-ji (Ichibata Yakushi), the 26th station of the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage, sits atop Mt. Ichihata above Lake Shinji....

Ichijō-ji

Kasai, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Ichijo-ji is station 26 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Tendai Buddhism temple in Hyogo dedicated to Shō Kannon....

Ichinomiya-ji

Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Ichinomiya-ji is the eighty-third temple of the Shikoku circuit and the only one historically tied to a province's principal Shinto shrine....

Ido-ji

Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan

Ido-ji, Temple 17 of the Shikoku 88, is named for a well Kūkai is said to have dug in a single night to bring clean water to a suffering village....

Igusa Hachimangu

Suginami City, Tokyo, Japan

Igusa Hachimangu (井草八幡宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Ikaruga-dera

Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Hyōgo Ikaruga-dera in Taishi-chō was founded by Prince Shōtoku in 606 CE on rice-paddy lands granted to him in Harima Province by Empress Suiko....

Ikegami Honmon-ji Temple

Ota City, Tokyo, Japan

Ikegami Honmon-ji Temple (日蓮宗 大本山 池上本門寺) is an active Nichiren Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....

Imado Shrine

Taito City, Tokyo, Japan

Imado Shrine (今戸神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference evidence,...

Imakumano Kannon-ji

Part of Sennyū-ji

Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Imakumano Kannon-ji is station 15 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism, Kumano cult temple in Kyoto dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....

Imamiya-bō

Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Imamiya-bō, fourteenth station of the Chichibu 34 Kannon Pilgrimage, is a Rinzai Zen temple of the Nanzen-ji branch on a site that was, for nearly a millennium, a single...

Inasa Beach

Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan

In Japanese mythology, a god descended from heaven at this beach, thrust his sword into the sand, and demanded that the ruler of the earthly realm cede power to the sun...

Ise Grand Shrine (Ise Jingū)

Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan

Deep within a sacred forest in Mie Prefecture stands Ise Jingu, the most venerated Shinto shrine in Japan....

Ishi-no-Hoden, Himeji

Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Rising from a sacred pool whose waters never dry, Ishi-no-Hoden appears to defy gravity itself....

Ishibutai Kofun, Asuka

Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan

In the Asuka valley, thirty granite megaliths weighing over 2,200 tons form Japan's largest known ancient burial chamber....