Location List

The Mid-autumn Festival (Hojoe Ceremony = release of captive animals) is held at the vermillion-lacquered Wama Shrine Ukiden near the mouth of Yorimogawa River which runs near the Usa Shrine into t...

If you walk a little south on “Otonoshirabedori” in Yokkaichi, Usa City, you will see a steep staircase on your right, and if you go up these 108 steps, you will see Jyuhozan Mahayana. The mummy of...

Otome Shrine is closely related to Usa Jingu.

Usa Jingu Sando is the approach leading to the Usa Jingu.

A shopping street leading to the Usa Jingu with many gift shops and restaurants.

Also known as the Oh-harai, the Nagoshi Festival is held for three days as a Shinto purification ceremony. The gods are carried on portable shrines (Mikoshi) as part of the ceremony.

With its first hall built in early 8th century to worship the spirit of the 15th emperor of Japan, Emperor Ojin, Usa Jingu is the head shrine of over 40,000 shrines across Japan that are dedicated...

Tenneiji Temple offers a beautiful night view of the Kaiun Pagoda and cherry blossoms overlooking the city lights of Onomichi City.

A temple used as a location for a film. The view is from the western side of the city, looking to the east.

The only place to get a view of the Tenneiji Temple Pagoda overlooking the city and the sea. The view is especially beautiful during the cherry blossom season.

The approach leading to the main hall of the Hachiman Shrine from the downtown area during the Edo Period which was split into two, north and south, by a railroad and a national highway.

With simple arrangements of the Inaba umbrella dance brought from eastern Tottori, the Shan-Shan Festival has become one that anyone can join. The name ‘shan-shan’ is based on onomatopoeia for both...

A low angle shot of the Sunset Path in front of the temple gate in autumn.

A vermillion torii gate standing on a narrow alley called Miyoshiya Shoji, with buildings reminiscent of old merchant residents on both sides of the street.

Overhead wooden corridor over a narrow path at Tenneiji Temple.

A very rare stone gate made of granite.

These stone steps were used in the film ‘I Are You, You Am Me’ (also known as ‘Exchange Students’) for the scene where the minds and bodies of the boy and girl are switched.

Tenneiji Temple houses 526 arhats (Rakan figures). Each figure was donated from the Edo to Meiji Era and there is one figure that faces backwards.

Night light of Sumiyoshi Shrine, used in the opening scene of the film ‘Tokyo Story.’

Numerous stone buddha statues within the Jodoji Temple, weathered and covered with moss.

Steps called Gangi (used to load/unload cargo by the water) rebuilt and made of concrete next to the Sumiyoshi Shrine.

Beautiful dark pink weeping cherry blossoms in the garden of Tenneiji Temple, built in 1367 by Yoshiakira Ashikaga, the second shogun in the Muromachi Period.

The view of 108 stone steps leading to the main hall of Saikokuji Temple with cherry blossoms seen through the Niomon Gate is like a beautiful painting.

Built in Kamakura era.