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Kokuzo Shrine 12

Kokuzo Shrine

Ekaterina Bespyatova

Kokuzo shrine is featured in the Engishiki, a thousand-year-old book from the Heian period. It's one of the oldest shrines in...

Kumamoto
Oji Shrine

Oji Shrine

Sleiman Azizi

Oji Shrine is said to have been built around the same time its famous gingko tree was planted, some time in the early 14th ce...

Tokyo
Torigoe Shrine

Torigoe Shrine

Sleiman Azizi

One of Tokyo's oldest Shinto shrine, Torigoe Shrine in Taito City has a history dating back to the beginnings of the Japanese...

Tokyo
Totto Shrine

Totto Shrine

Dorothee Tsunoda

Totto Shrine in the Japanese village of Higashiagatsumamachi is over 100 years old. It is still an important spiritual cente...

Gunma
Ooasahiko Shrine

Ooasahiko Shrine

Anonymous

OoAsahiko ( 大麻比古神社 ) is a Shinto Shrine in Naruto, Tokushima. Located within walking distance of Ryozen Temple, it is t...

Tokushima
Imamiya Shrine 14

Imamiya Shrine

Meg Sing

Imamiya Shrine erected due to a plague in Kyoto 1000 years ago has age-old ties with Yasurai Matsuri and two aburi mochi shop...

Kyoto
Tsukiyomi Shrine 7

Tsukiyomi Shrine

Maren Pauli

Visit Tsukiyomi Shrine at the foot of Sakurajima and get rewarded with an amazing view of the volcano.

Kagoshima