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Sakitsu Kyokai
It stands within a fishing village. Unusually, the floor inside is laid with tatami.
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Ugeto no Iwa
A great hole said to have been kicked through by an ogre. It is held to let any difficulty pass.
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Takamori Aso Jinja
The tutelary shrine of southern Aso. It preserves the Fuchin festival.
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Shirakawa Yoshimi Jinja
It stands at the mouth of the Shirakawa spring. One of the hundred famous waters of Japan.
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Ungan Zenji
It has the Reiganto cave, where Miyamoto Musashi wrote the Book of Five Rings.
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Kengun Jinja
Held to be the oldest shrine in Kumamoto. Its approach runs about 500 metres.
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Izumi Jinja
It stands within Suizenji Jojuen garden, and enshrines the Hosokawa family.
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Kitaoka Jinja
A married pair of camphor trees stands on the approach. A shrine of the Gion faith.
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Kosa Jinja
One of the four Aso shrines. It stands by a river known for weir fishing for sweetfish.
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Konoura Jinja
One of the four Aso shrines, facing the Yatsushiro Sea, also called the Shiranui Sea.
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Yatsushiro Jinja
One of the three great Myoken shrines of Japan. Its Myoken festival is UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Matsui Jinja
It enshrines the Matsui, lords of Yatsushiro Castle. A tea house and garden survive.
KumamotoShrines & TemplesHitoyoshi
Aoi Aso Romon
The thatched gate is a National Treasure. Yin and yang demon faces are carved beneath the eaves.
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Suwa Jinja (Amakusa)
The tutelary shrine of Amakusa, in a land that keeps the legend of Amakusa Shiro.
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Usa Jingu
The Hachiman line is held to be the most numerous of all shrine networks in Japan. It enshrines Emperor Ojin, and spread nationwide once the Minamoto took him up as the guardian of the warrior class. Iwashimizu Hachimangu too was divided from here. The main hall is a National Treasure: three halls standing side by side in the hachiman-zukuri style. Worship is two bows, four claps, one bow, the same form as at Izumo Taisha.
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Kumano Magaibutsu
A group of stone figures carved directly into the cliff, among the largest in Japan. You climb stone steps said to have been built by an ogre in a single night.
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Yusuhara Hachimangu
First shrine of Bungo Province, its deity invited from Usa Jingu. The great camphor in its grounds is a Natural Monument.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
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