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Happyaku Bikuni
A cave here is said to be where a nun who ate mermaid flesh and lived eight hundred years entered her final meditation.
FukuiShrines & TemplesWakasa
Uriwari no Taki
Water so cold, they say, that it split a melon. It rises in the grounds of Tokutokuji.
Katsuyama
Echizen Daibutsu
Seventeen metres tall, a seated figure larger than the Great Buddha of Nara.
YamanashiShrines & TemplesFujiyoshida
Kitaguchi Hongu Fuji Sengen Jinja
The start of the Yoshida trail up Mount Fuji. This was the road the Fuji-ko pilgrims of the Edo period took to the summit. A component of the Fujisan World Cultural Heritage site.
YamanashiShrines & TemplesKofu
Takeda Jinja
It enshrines Takeda Shingen. Built on the site of the Tsutsujigasaki residence, it recalls that Shingen raised no castle, holding that people were his castle and his stone walls.
YamanashiShrines & TemplesMinobu
Minobusan Kuonji
The head temple of the Nichiren school. The Bodaitei stairway from the gate to the main hall runs to 287 steps, steep enough to leave you breathless if you climb it in one go.
YamanashiShrines & TemplesFujikawaguchiko
Kawaguchi Asama Jinja
Built to quiet the great Jogan eruption. The seven cedars along its approach are a prefectural Natural Monument.
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YamanashiShrines & TemplesFujiyoshida
Yoshidaguchi
The path from Kitaguchi Hongu to the summit, walked by the Fuji-ko pilgrims of Edo.
YamanashiShrines & TemplesFujiyoshida
Oshi Jutaku
Lodgings that housed Fuji-ko pilgrims. Faith had become a travel business.
YamanashiShrines & TemplesOshino
Oshino Hakkai
Eight pools fed by groundwater from Fuji. They served as the place of purification before the climb.
YamanashiShrines & TemplesKofu
Kanazakura Jinja
Its sacred treasure is rock crystal, and it is held to be the origin of crystal working here. It draws prayers for wealth.
YamanashiShrines & TemplesKofu
Kai Zenkoji
Shingen founded it by moving the principal image of Zenkoji in Shinano. Its main hall is among the largest in eastern Japan.
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YamanashiShrines & TemplesFuefuki
Yamanashioka Jinja
One theory holds that the prefecture's name, Yamanashi, comes from this shrine.
YamanashiShrines & TemplesFuefuki
Asama Jinja (Ichinomiya)
First shrine of Kai Province, built to quiet the eruptions of Fuji.
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YamanashiShrines & TemplesFuefuki
Asama Shrine, Ichinomiya, Fuefuki
First shrine of Kai Province, standing among peach orchards.