Location List

This sweeping plateau, a beautifully vivid green in summer, is covered in pampas grass which turns a golden colour in autumn. Short hiking trails leading to the top of Mt Kuroso offer spectacular v...

If you don’t mind some steep stairs, this small shrine in a bamboo forest behind Ohmiwa Jinja Shrine has a lovely atmosphere. There is a small observatory in the shrine precincts with views over th...

Deep in a grove of cedar trees, this smaller shrine within Ohmiwa Jinja Shrine has a wonderfully mysterious atmosphere. Dedicated to medicine and healing, it houses a natural spring whose waters ar...

Established in AD645, this is one of Japan’s oldest Buddhist temples. It is famous with test takers who pray for good results. The temple houses a striking seven meter tall statue of Monju Bosatsu,...

The wide, lantern-lined avenue that leads to this Meiji era (1868- 1912) shrine gives you a hint of the grand scale to expect. Entering through the low-roofed gate into the vast gravel expanse, you...

river of which lower called Kino river in Wakayama prefecture

River famous for tanka (Japanese poem of thirty‐one syllables)

The mountain itself makes the main shrine where the divine spirit is enshrined and has been worshipped as the object mountain of worship Shintai-zan.

Hase is the head temple of a large branch of the Shingon sect and has 3,000 branch temples throughout Japan.

the Shinto ritual

world Heritage