Shrines & Temples1,460 entries
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FIRST VISIT GUIDE
Learn how shrines and temples differ, then look at the photos
Start with the two explanations. Below them are photos and entries for shrines and temples across Japan.1,460 entries / page 24 of 61
YamanashiShrines & TemplesNirasaki
Ganjoji (Nirasaki)
The funerary temple of Takeda Nobuyoshi, and the birthplace of the Takeda clan.
Hayakawa
Shichimenzan
At 1,982 metres. It enshrines the guardian deity of women in the Nichiren school, and is famous for the sunrise.
Fuefuki
Asama Jinja (Kai Ichinomiya)
Built to quiet the eruptions of Fuji. It stands in the middle of an orchard valley.
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Jindai Zakura
Said to be 2,000 years old, one of the three great cherry trees of Japan. Yamato Takeru is said to have planted it.
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NaganoShrines & TemplesAround Suwa
Suwa Taisha
Four shrines make it up: Kamisha Honmiya and Maemiya, Shimosha Akimiya and Harumiya, and some of them have no main hall at all. Once every seven years, at the Onbashira festival, huge trees cut from the mountain are hauled by hand and raised at the four corners of the halls.
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Togakushi Jinja
Five shrines in all, including Okusha, Chusha and Hokosha. The avenue of cedars running about 500 metres to Okusha is famous. The name comes from the myth in which the rock thrown from the heavenly cave became Mount Togakushi.
NaganoShrines & TemplesMatsumoto
Yohashira Jinja
Because it enshrines four deities, it is called the god who ties wishes together. It faces Nawate-dori.
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Ikushima Tarushima Jinja
Its object of worship is the ground itself, beneath the floor of the main hall. Many written prayers by Takeda Shingen survive here.
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Kamisha Honmiya
One of the four shrines. It has no main hall, keeping the older form of worshipping the mountain itself.
NaganoShrines & TemplesChino
Kamisha Maemiya
The only one of the four with a main hall. Held to be the birthplace of Suwa belief.
NaganoShrines & TemplesShimosuwa
Shimosha Akimiya
The shrine where the deity resides from August to January. Its bronze guardian lions are said to be the largest in Japan.
NaganoShrines & TemplesShimosuwa
Shimosha Harumiya
The deity resides here from February to July. It is said to have been built from the same plans as Akimiya.
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Togakushi Okusha
It stands at the end of an avenue of cedars some 500 metres long, enshrining the deity who threw the heavenly rock door.
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Kuzuryusha
The land deity, held to be older than Okusha. A god of rain and of toothache.
NaganoShrines & TemplesUeda
Kitamuki Kannon
An unusual hall that faces north. Visiting it together with Zenkoji is a custom of long standing.