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IshikawaShrines & TemplesHakusan stands with Fuji and Tateyama as one of the three sacred mountains of Japan. What this shrine venerates is water. Snow that falls on Hakusan becomes the Tedori and Kuzuryu rivers and waters the plain. The rice, the sake and the yuzen-nagashi rinsing all depend on it. The inner shrine sits at the 2,702-metre summit.
IshikawaShrines & TemplesThe Irazu-no-Mori in its grounds is a Natural Monument, and the public is still forbidden to enter.
IshikawaShrines & TemplesAn old Soto Zen temple. It was once the head temple; after a fire the head moved to Yokohama, and this site remained as the founding temple.
IshikawaShrines & TemplesIt enshrines Maeda Toshiie. The gate, set with stained glass, is an unusual design mixing Japanese, Chinese and Western elements.
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IshikawaShrines & TemplesIt stands on the site of the Ataka barrier, known as the setting of the Kanjincho tale of Yoshitsune and Benkei, and draws prayers for getting through a hard test.
IshikawaShrines & TemplesAt the 2,702-metre summit of Hakusan, one of the three sacred mountains of Japan.
IshikawaShrines & TemplesA stone stairway through cedars. The sound of the Tedori river never stops.
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IshikawaShrines & TemplesA three-storey gate mixing Japanese, Chinese and Western styles. The stained glass at the top is said to have served as a lighthouse.
A hill looking down on Kanazawa. Utasu Jinja enshrines the ancestral spirits of the Kaga domain.
IshikawaShrines & TemplesThe caves are said to represent paradise and hell. Passing through the rock is a rebirth.
The shrine behind a morning market said to have run for over a thousand years.
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IshikawaShrines & TemplesThe setting of the Kanjincho tale, and the source of a belief in getting through hard tests.
IshikawaShrines & TemplesNext to Kenrokuen. The spring called Kinjo Reizawa is said to be the origin of the name Kanazawa, the golden marsh.
IshikawaShrines & TemplesBehind the Higashi Chaya district. It enshrined the ancestral spirits of the Kaga domain.
IshikawaShrines & TemplesHeld to be the oldest shrine in Kanazawa. A hundred and one vermilion torii stand in a row.
IshikawaShrines & TemplesAt the tip of the Noto peninsula. It holds a flute said to have been dedicated by Yoshitsune.