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Anan

Tairyuji

A mountain temple called the Koya of the west. Kukai is said to have practised here, and today a ropeway runs up.

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Minami

Yakuoji

Known as a temple for warding off misfortune. Custom is to climb the 42 steps of the men's slope and the 33 of the women's, leaving a coin on each according to your age.

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Idoji

A well survives that Kukai is said to have dug in a single night. If your face shows in the water, they say, you will keep your health.

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Awa

Jurakuji

Its name means leaving the eight sufferings and gaining the ten pleasures. A vermilion gate recalling the dragon palace stands here.

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Komatsushima

Tatsueji

One of the four barrier temples of Shikoku. Those with ill intent were said to be unable to go further.

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Dainichiji

It was the administrative temple of Ichinomiya Jinja, and keeps a trace of the old fusion of Shinto and Buddhism.

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Awa Kokubunji

Its Momoyama-period dry landscape garden is a Place of Scenic Beauty.

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Kannonji (Tokushima)

It carries a faith for stopping a child's night crying.

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Anan

Byodoji

You climb the men's and women's misfortune slopes to reach the main hall.

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Zentsuji

Held to be the birthplace of Kukai. It sits near the end of the road that begins in Tokushima.

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Takamatsu

Yashimaji

On top of Yashima, looking down on the old battlefield of the Genpei war.

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Takamatsu

Tamura Jinja

First shrine of Sanuki Province. A dragon is said to live in the bottomless pool in its grounds, and looking into it was held to bring a curse.

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Takamatsu

Negoroji

A mountain temple on the circuit, carrying the legend of the ushi-oni. Also famous for autumn colour.

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Tadotsu

Doryuji

Said to be good for ailments of the eye. More than two hundred Kannon figures stand in rows.

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Utazu

Goshoji

The only Ji-shu temple among the Shikoku sacred sites.

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Takamatsu

Sanuki Kokubunji

The foundation stones from its founding survive, so the size of the old precinct can be read on the ground.

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Takamatsu

Ichinomiyaji

Put your head into the stone shrine, they say, and you will hear the cauldrons of hell.

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Sanuki

Nagaoji

Said to be where Shizuka Gozen took the tonsure.

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Kanonji

Two temples of the circuit within a single precinct. The only such case in Japan.

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Mitoyo

Motoyamaji

Its main hall is a National Treasure. One of the few Shikoku temples with a five-storey pagoda.

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Naoshima

Goo Jinja

Rebuilt with a hall reached by a glass stairway. Contemporary art and faith, overlapping.

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Matsuyama

Ishiteji

Its Nio gate is a National Treasure. It stands just beside Dogo Onsen.

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Matsuyama

Isaniwa Jinja

Its hall in the hachiman-zukuri style is held to be one of only three such in Japan, with Usa Jingu and Iwashimizu Hachimangu. It stands on the rise above Dogo.

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Imabari

Nankobo

The only temple on the circuit to call itself a bo. It was moved from Omishima as a sub-temple of the betto temple of an auxiliary shrine of Oyamazumi Jinja.