Enoshima 2019 (November visit): Enoshima Shrine
At the end of the shopping street on Enoshima I arrived at a large torii gate that marked the entrance to Enoshima Shrine. There are…
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At the end of the shopping street on Enoshima I arrived at a large torii gate that marked the entrance to Enoshima Shrine. There are…
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Right by Lake Ashinoko’s torii gate are the stairs leading up to Hakone Shrine. Tradition says that Hakone Shrine was first founded in the year…
Just a couple minutes south of Matsumoto Castle is the Yohashira Shrine. This charming little shrine is dedicated to four Shinto deities and its name…
At the end of the Oharaimachi shopping street is the entrance to the Inner Ise Shrine. Also known as Naiku, the Inner Shrine was founded…
My second day trip out of the city of Nagoya would take me down to Ise Shima, where I’d be visiting the famous Shinto shrines…
On the west side of Kanazawa Castle is a Oyama Shrine, which was first established in 1599 and was originally located in a different part…
A few blocks south of the Omicho Market I saw a small shrine at the end of a road and I decided to take a…
Lol, it’s true, I went back to Fushimi Inari Shrine a third time before leaving Kyoto. It was getting late in the afternoon and I…
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As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I figured I’d share a video that I took with my phone while walking through Senbon Torii at Fushimi…
On my second full day in Kyoto I had visited Fushimi Inari Shrine in the hopes of getting a nice photo of the shrine’s famous…
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