Japan

Mimuroto-ji

Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Mimuroto-ji is station 10 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Honzan Shugen-shū temple in Kyoto dedicated to Senju Kannon....

Minamihokke-ji (Tsubosaka-dera)

Takatori, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Minamihokke-ji (Tsubosaka-dera) is station 6 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism — Tsubosaka temple in Nara dedicated to Senju Kannon....

Minase Jingu

Shimamoto, Japan

Minase Jingu in Shimamoto venerates the emperors Go-Toba, Tsuchimikado and Juntoku. Alongside that imperial remembrance, it maintains prayers for childbirth....

Mitaki-dera (Mitaki-Kannon)

Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Mitaki-dera — Ryūsen-zan Mitaki-ji — sits in a forested ravine 3 km from the hypocentre of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, with three named waterfalls flowing through the...

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....

Mizuma-dera

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Mizuma-dera, popularly called Mizuma Kannon, is among the most actively visited temples in southern Osaka....

Mizusawa-dera

Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, Japan

Mizusawa-dera, the sixteenth station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho Kannon pilgrimage, sits on the wooded slopes below Ikaho Onsen....

Motoyama-ji

Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Motoyama-ji rises from the Mitoyo plain in Kagawa, its vermillion five-storied pagoda visible across rice fields....

Motoyamaji Temple, Motoyama

Mitoyo, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Motoyamaji Temple, the 70th station on Shikoku's 88-temple pilgrimage, guards the approach to spiritual completion....

Motsu-ji

Hiraizumi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan

Motsu-ji, stands in Hiraizumi. At Motsu-ji, Tendai Buddhism guides custody. Prayer at Motsu-ji addresses Yakushi Nyorai within a Tendai Pure Land landscape....

Mount Gassan

Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Mount Gassan, stands in Tsuruoka. At Mount Gassan, Dewa Sanzan mountain worship, Shinto and Shugendō guides custody....

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...

Mount Takao Yakuō-in

Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

Mount Takao Yakuō-in (高尾山 薬王院 有喜寺) is an active Japanese Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo....

Mount Yudono

Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Mount Yudono is the culminating mountain of the Dewa Sanzan pilgrimage of rebirth in Yamagata....

Mt. Asama

Komoro, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Mount Asama rises at the border of Nagano and Gunma Prefectures, Japan's most active volcano on Honshu....

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. Bandai

Inawashiro, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Mount Bandai rises in Fukushima as a transformed sacred peak. Called 'rock ladder to the sky' in ancient times, the mountain was reshaped by an 1888 eruption that created...

Mt. Chokai

Yuza, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Rising 2,236 meters at the border of Yamagata and Akita Prefectures, Mount Chokai has drawn mountain worshippers since ancient times....

Mt. Fuji

Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Mount Fuji rises 3,776 meters in nearly perfect symmetry—a form so iconic it has come to represent Japan itself....

Mt. Haku

Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

Blanketed in snow for much of the year, Mount Haku—the White Mountain—has drawn pilgrims for over thirteen centuries....

Mt. Ishizuchi

Saijo, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Mount Ishizuchi stands as the highest peak in western Japan and one of the Seven Sacred Mountains....

Mt. Iwaki

Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan

Rising 1,625 meters above Aomori Prefecture, Mount Iwaki dominates the Tsugaru region as its highest peak and spiritual guardian....

Mt. Kaimon

Ibusuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

At the southern tip of Kyushu, Mount Kaimon rises in such perfect conical form that locals call it 'Satsuma Fuji.' This 924-meter peak has drawn worshippers since ancient...

Mt. Katsuragi

Gose, Nara Prefecture, Japan

The Katsuragi Mountains are where Japanese mountain mysticism was born. In 634 CE, En no Gyoja—the legendary founder of Shugendo—entered the world at the foot of these...

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....

Mt. Omine (Mount Sanjō)

Tenkawa, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Mount Omine is the headquarters of Shugendo—Japan's tradition of mountain asceticism—and perhaps its most intensely sacred site....

Mt. Ontake

Otaki, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Japan's second highest volcano has drawn pilgrims for over a thousand years. White-robed devotees still purify under waterfalls before ascending Mount Ontake, following...

Mt. Yoshino

Yoshino, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Mount Yoshino is where Japanese mountain mysticism was born. In the 7th century, the ascetic En no Gyoja achieved spiritual awakening here and founded Shugendo—the path of...

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 Kokubunji

Kokubunji, Tokyo, Japan

Musashi Kokubunji (武蔵国分寺) is an active Shingon Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...

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...

Myoho-ji

Suginami City, Tokyo, Japan

Myoho-ji (妙法寺) is an active Nichiren Buddhism sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...

Myōshin-ji

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

A vast Rinzai head temple ordered around training and lineage. Myōshin-ji remains an active Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Myōshin-ji school temple....

Nachi Falls

Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Nachi Falls, stands in Nachikatsuura. At Nachi Falls, Kumano Shinto and Shugendō guides custody....

Nagao-ji

Sanuki, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Nagao-ji is the eighty-seventh of the eighty-eight Shikoku temples — the second-to-last, set in the open Nagao district of Sanuki under an enormous camphor canopy....

Nago-ji

Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Nago-ji — Fudaraku-san Nago-ji — is the 33rd and final station of the Bandō Sanjūsankasho, set on a forested mid-slope of Mt. Nago in Tateyama, Chiba....

Nakaenoshima

Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Nakaenoshima, stands in Hirado. At Nakaenoshima, Hidden Christian tradition guides custody. Prayer at Nakaenoshima addresses Christian martyrs and the sacred water used by....

Nakayama-dera

Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Nakayama-dera is station 24 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Shingon Buddhism — Nakayama branch temple in Hyogo dedicated to Jūichimen Kannon....

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...

Nan'endō (Kofuku-ji)

Part of Kofuku-ji

Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Nan'endō (Kōfuku-ji) is station 9 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Hossō school temple in Nara dedicated to Fukūkenjaku Kannon....

Nankōbō

Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Temple 55 of the Shikoku henro is the only one of the 88 whose name ends in 'bō' — priest's lodging — a vestige of its origin as a sub-temple of the great Bekku Ōyamazumi...

Nanzen-ji

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Imperial retreat transformed into a head temple of Rinzai Zen. Nanzen-ji remains an active Rinzai Zen Buddhism, Nanzen-ji school temple....

Nariai-ji

Miyazu, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Nariai-ji is station 28 on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, a Hashidate Shingon-shū temple in Kyoto dedicated to Shō Kannon....

Naritasan Shinsho-ji

Narita, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Naritasan Shinsho-ji, stands in Narita. At Naritasan Shinsho-ji, Shingon Buddhism, Chisan school guides custody. Prayer at Naritasan Shinsho-ji addresses Fudō Myōō....

Negoro-ji

Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan

Negoro-ji stands at 365 metres on the slopes of Mt. Aomine, deep in the cedar forest of the Goshikidai plateau....

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,...