Location List

Omura-city shrine

Okinawa’s most important sacred place is seated overlooking the Chinen peninsula. The site is said to have been made by the legendary creator, Amamikiyo. It is known as a sacred grove for prayer fa...

The old temple known as the elegant famous garden "garden of the tanka feast on the curve of a river bank" of 枯山遺水式. I am informed the style of this garden by a picture scroll in Nara, old da...

This ancient road which runs through Katsuragi, once the epicentre of politics and culture in its heyday, and along the base of Mt. Katsuragi and Mt Kongo, today offers hikers a gentle path to trav...

The approach to Nara’s most famous and impressive Shinto shrine takes you along an atmospheric forest path, lined with hundreds of stone lanterns. Everywhere you will come across the sacred deer th...

The entrance is easy to miss: a small, red arched bridge leads from the narrow shopping street to the temple complex. You follow a path along the river to the large Nio-Mon gate that marks the real...

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...

Hyakusaiji Temple is a "mountain castle" style temple belonging to the Tendai sect of Buddhism, surrounded by heavy walls of stone. One of the oldest temples in Omi, it was built partway up Mt. Osh...

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The Osu shopping district is huge and popular shopping area containing over 1,200 shops and restaurants. All kinds of shops, including electrical appliance shops, secondhand clothing stores, restau...

Completed in 1832 after 38 years of construction, Gifu’s Great Buddha is 13.7 meters tall, is counted among Japan’s Three Great Buddha Statues, and is the largest in Japan to be made of lacquer.

The main shrine of the Suwa Shrine is called O-Suwa-sama. There is an Upper Shrine and Lower Shrine, where the Upper Shrine includes the main building (in Suwa) and front building (in Chino).

An aesthetically pleasing cedar forest surrounds the three main shrine structures, which have all been named national important cultural properties. Fuji-Sengen shrine is the main sight for local f...

Mano Goryo Mausoleum is the official cremation mound of Emperor Juntoku.

the northeｒnmost Japanese style castle in Japan

mportant cultural properties which built by Hachiman structure remain only three in Japan

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.

Japanese traditional wood bridge

Oldest building in Minami Aips city

Dazaifu Tenmangu is a shrine built over the grave of Michizane Sugawara venerated by the Japanese throughout the country as the Tenman-Tenjin(the deified spirit of Michizane), or the God of literat...