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ToyamaShrines & TemplesThree sites make up one shrine: the Maetate hall in the village, the Chugu prayer hall, and the Mine main hall at the 3,003-metre summit of Tateyama. In the Edo period women were not allowed on the mountain, and instead crossed a cloth-covered bridge blindfolded in the Nunobashi Kanjoe. A substitute mechanism: salvation without the climb.
ToyamaShrines & TemplesToyamaShrines & TemplesToyamaShrines & TemplesAt the 3,003-metre summit of Tateyama, one of the three sacred mountains of Japan.
ToyamaShrines & TemplesSulphurous steam rises from the ground. In Tateyama belief this was taken to be an actual hell.
A rite in which women crossed a cloth bridge blindfolded, in place of the climb they were barred from. Salvation without the ascent.
ToyamaArchitectureAt 186 metres, the tallest in Japan. It took seven years to build, and 171 people died.
ToyamaNature & SceneryYou walk between walls of snow 20 metres high, cut open by the ploughs.
ToyamaMuseumsHolds Tateyama mandalas - paintings that mapped the mountain as heaven and hell, produced in numbers for pilgrims.
ToyamaContemporary ArtJapan's highest waterfall, painted into the Tateyama mandalas as the boundary between hell and paradise.
ToyamaArchitectureA route climbing 2,000 metres, whose annual snow clearing carves twenty-metre walls - a form remade each spring.