ShimaneShrines & TemplesShrines & Temples1,460 entries
13,910 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
1,460ShowingAll JapanArea12Themes
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 43 of 61
ShimaneShrines & Temples
ShimaneShrines & TemplesIzumo
Karakama Jinja
You worship by squeezing through a cleft in the rock 45 centimetres wide. A deity of ironworking.
ShimaneShrines & Temples
ShimaneShrines & TemplesUnnan
Kanbara Jinja
A bronze mirror inscribed with the year Jingchu 3 was excavated from a burial mound here.
OkayamaShrines & TemplesOkayama
Kibitsu Jinja
Its main hall and worship hall are National Treasures. What makes it famous is the corridor, about 360 metres of it, running along the ridge. A roofed walkway that undulates downhill with the lie of the land. That is architecture fitted to a site, not a design meant to be looked at.
OkayamaShrines & TemplesOkayama
Kibitsuhiko Jinja
It carries the legend of the subduing of Ura. That myth is held to be the original of the Momotaro tale.
OkayamaShrines & TemplesOkayama
Saijo Inari
Even after the separation of Shinto and Buddhism it did not become a shrine, but kept enshrining Inari as a temple: a rare case. Its formal name is Myokyoji.
OkayamaShrines & TemplesSoja
Bicchu Kokubunji
Its five-storey pagoda stands in the farmland of the Kibiji. One of the defining views of Okayama.
OkayamaShrines & TemplesKurashiki
Yuga Jinja Hongu
In the Edo period it became customary to pair a visit here with one to Kotohiragu in Sanuki. It claims to be the head temple for warding off misfortune.
OkayamaShrines & Temples
OkayamaShrines & Temples
OkayamaShrines & Temples
OkayamaShrines & TemplesKurashiki
Achi Jinja
It stands on Tsurugatayama, looking down on the Kurashiki Bikan district. A shrine tied to immigrants from the continent.
OkayamaShrines & TemplesTsuyama
Nakayama Jinja
First shrine of Mimasaka Province, with a main hall in its own nakayama-zukuri style.
Kurashiki
Achi no Fuji
An akebono wisteria over 300 years old. A prefectural Natural Monument.
OkayamaShrines & TemplesSetouchi
Karako Odori
A dance said to derive from the Korean envoys is dedicated at the Ekijin shrine.
OkayamaShrines & TemplesAkaiwa
Kumayama Iseki
A three-tiered stone structure. Called a pagoda by some and an altar by others, its purpose is still unsettled.
OkayamaShrines & TemplesTsuyama
Tokumori Jinja
The tutelary shrine of the Tsuyama castle town. Its portable shrine is one of the three great mikoshi of Japan.
OkayamaShrines & Temples