Tradition guide
Shinto
Shinto sacred sites often center on kami, forests, mountains, water, gates, seasonal ritual, and shrine landscapes woven into local life.
148 sacred places share this lineage. Use the country links to narrow in.
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Shinto sacred sites overview
Shinto sacred sites connect places through shared lineage, ritual use, memory, and pilgrimage practice across the Pilgrim Map atlas.
Use this page to compare country clusters, common place types, UNESCO-tagged landmarks, and the map distribution before exploring individual site pages.
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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....
Takaoshihime Shrine
Masaki, Ehime, Japan
Takaoshihime Shrine in Masaki honours a deity revered as an ancestral protector of midwives and wet nurses....
Takijiri-oji
Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Takijiri-oji (滝尻王子) is the traditional entrance to the Kumano mountains and one of the five major oji on the Nakahechi section of the Kumano Kodo....
Tamatsukuri Onsen
Matsue, Shimane, Japan
Tamatsukuri Onsen follows the Tamayu River in Matsue.
Todoroki Falls, Kaiyō
Kaiyō, Tokushima, Japan
Todoroki Falls in Kaiyō belongs to a living shrine landscape in southern Tokushima....
Togakushi Shrine
Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Mount Togakushi is literally the 'Hidden Door'—the cave entrance that the god Tajikarao threw across the heavens after pulling the sun goddess Amaterasu from her hiding...
Togo Shrine
Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Togo Shrine (東郷神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference evidence,...
Togoshi Hachiman Shrine
品川区 Shinagawa City, Tokyo, Japan
Togoshi Hachiman Shrine (戸越八幡神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...
Tokyo Daijingu
Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Daijingu (東京大神宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Tomioka Hachiman Shrine
Koto City, Tokyo, Japan
Tomioka Hachiman Shrine (富岡八幡宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...
Tongxiao Shinto Shrine
Tongxiao, Miaoli County, Miaoli County, Taiwan
Built in 1937 as a State Shinto shrine to Amaterasu and a Japanese imperial prince, then converted in 1947 into a Nationalist Chinese martyrs' shrine honoring Koxinga and...
Torigoe Shrine
Taito City, Tokyo, Japan
Torigoe Shrine (鳥越神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Tsugizakura-oji
Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Tsugizakura-oji (継桜王子) is an oji grove known for the Nonaka Ipposugi cedars and its association with Minakata Kumagusu's resistance to shrine consolidation on the...
Tsurugaoka Hachimangu
Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, stands in Kamakura. At Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, Shinto guides custody....
Ueno Toshogu Shrine
Taito City, Tokyo, Japan
Ueno Toshogu Shrine (上野東照宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Ujigami-jinja Shrine
Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Ancient shrine architecture beside a living spring above Uji. Ujigami-jinja Shrine remains an active Shinto shrine....
Umi Hachimangu
Umi, Japan
Umi Hachimangu is associated with the traditional birthplace of Emperor Ojin. Prayers for childbirth and thanksgiving after birth are woven into its precinct through...
Usa Jingu
Usa, Oita Prefecture, Japan
In 749 CE, when Emperor Shōmu consecrated the Great Buddha at Tōdai-ji, a deity traveled from Kyushu to Nara for the ceremony—the first time a Shinto god participated in...
Ushijima Shrine
Sumida City, Tokyo, Japan
Ushijima Shrine (牛嶋神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Wara Tenjingu (Shikichi Shrine)
Kyoto, Japan
Shikichi Shrine, commonly called Wara Tenjingu, is a Kyoto shrine associated with safe-childbirth prayers....
Washinoki Stone Circle
Mori, Hokkaido, Japan
Beneath a highway tunnel in southwestern Hokkaido lies Japan's largest stone circle, a 4,000-year-old Jomon burial site that was nearly destroyed by modern construction....
Yabo Tenmangu Shrine
Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan
Yabo Tenmangu Shrine (谷保天満宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Yasaka-jinja Shrine
Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Protection from disruptive forces at the sacred threshold of Gion. Yasaka-jinja Shrine remains an active Shinto shrine....
Yasukuni Shrine
Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan
Yasukuni Shrine (靖國神社) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or reference...
Yasuzumi Shrine
Takanezawa, Tochigi, Japan
Yasuzumi Shrine in Takanezawa is associated with prayers for safe childbirth and children’s growth....
Yōrō Falls
Yōrō, Gifu, Japan
Yōrō Falls in Gifu carries a story about care between generations. The waterfall is approached through Yōrō Park, within a landscape that also includes a shrine, a temple...
Yoyogi Hachiman-gu Shrine
Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Yoyogi Hachiman-gu Shrine (代々木八幡宮) is an active Shinto sacred place in Tokyo. The record is grounded in an exact Google Place ID, nearby coordinates, institutional or...
Yubunezawa Stone Circle
Takizawa, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Four thousand years ago, Jomon peoples of northern Japan established this ground exclusively for the dead and for ceremony....
Yuga Shinto Shrine, Kurashiki
Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Yuga Shrine rises on Mount Yuga in Okayama, where massive sacred rocks have been venerated for over 2,000 years....
Yukura Shrine
Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan
Yukura Shrine is a guardian shrine of Hakodate’s Yunokawa district. Alongside its connection with the hot springs, it offers prayers for childbirth and children’s growth....
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Key questions
Shinto sacred-site questions
What are Shinto sacred sites?
Shinto sacred sites are places connected by shared lineage, practice, memory, ritual use, or pilgrimage tradition.
Where can I find Shinto sacred sites?
The strongest country clusters in this guide include Japan, Taiwan.
What kinds of places are included?
The guide includes sacred landscapes, pilgrimage places, and ritual or historical sites where available.
Can I map Shinto sacred sites?
Yes. Compare country clusters and physical forms first, then open individual pages for coordinates, historical context, and visitor guidance.