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YamanashiShrines & TemplesThe 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 & TemplesIt 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 & TemplesThe 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 & TemplesBuilt to quiet the great Jogan eruption. The seven cedars along its approach are a prefectural Natural Monument.
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YamanashiShrines & TemplesThe path from Kitaguchi Hongu to the summit, walked by the Fuji-ko pilgrims of Edo.
YamanashiShrines & TemplesLodgings that housed Fuji-ko pilgrims. Faith had become a travel business.
YamanashiShrines & TemplesEight pools fed by groundwater from Fuji. They served as the place of purification before the climb.
YamanashiShrines & TemplesIts sacred treasure is rock crystal, and it is held to be the origin of crystal working here. It draws prayers for wealth.
YamanashiShrines & TemplesShingen 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 & TemplesOne theory holds that the prefecture's name, Yamanashi, comes from this shrine.
YamanashiShrines & TemplesFirst shrine of Kai Province, built to quiet the eruptions of Fuji.
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YamanashiShrines & TemplesFirst shrine of Kai Province, standing among peach orchards.
YamanashiShrines & TemplesThe funerary temple of Takeda Nobuyoshi, and the birthplace of the Takeda clan.
At 1,982 metres. It enshrines the guardian deity of women in the Nichiren school, and is famous for the sunrise.
Built to quiet the eruptions of Fuji. It stands in the middle of an orchard valley.
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