Location List

At the end of the Nara period, when Kibi no Mabi returned from China in 733, he climbed Mt. Hakuhei in the Hiromine mountain range and received Gozu Tenno's trust. In 734, the main shrine building ...

<The Last Samurai> and popular television dramas have been shot. The historical and natural landscape could be used for various scenes.

Spacious Japanese-style halls, magnificent wooden corridors and all parts of the temple could be used for samurai movies, etc.

Gokuraku-dori is a small path between Higashi Honganji and Nishi Honganji Yokkaichi Betsuin, an area that flourished as a temple town of Kyushu Gobo.

Its 700 m-long approach is paved with natural stones. Japan's largest Gongen-styale Building.

his is the historical temple at the side of the Chuugoku Region’s highest mountain. During the temple’s golden age in the Heian Period, Mt Daisen housed over one hundred temples and 3,000 monks, it...

Two wooden Kannon statues are enshrined in a cave.

Sadaki Itonaga donated the cost to build this pagoda as well as many artworks to his hometown. The pagoda was built in 1983 and is open to the public for free of charge.

Sada Shrine is a mysterious shrine known to the locals of Ajimu Town in Usa City. The main hall and the torii gate, renovated in 1864, have been in use for more than 150 years. Remains of a reverbe...

Tokoji Temple was founded in 1362 as part of the Rinzai School of Buddhism. It is said to have then been rebuilt from ruins in the later 17th century after being destroyed in the war. Since that ti...

The waterfall is 75 meters high and 13 meters wide with clear water flowing down vertically. The approach to the Kiyomizu Kannon (Goddess of Mercy) at the bottom of the waterfall has a solemn atmos...

Enshrined Deity is Shoin Yoshida.

At a temple of the national outstanding one of the three leading Zen sects in Japan that 3 代藩主毛利吉就 founded 名僧慧極 of the Hagi native place as a founder in (1691) in 1691, it is a family te...

agi feudal clan 2s feudal lord Tsunahiro Mori (つなひろ) revives, and Daisho-in Temple is the Rinzai sect temple which fixed the buildings less than the main hall of a Buddhist temple by (1656) in ...

The shrine which enshrines the first lord of the domain of Kaga, Toshiie MAEDA and his legal wife O-Matsu-no-kata. The Shinmon (shrine gate) is designated as a nationally important cultural proper...

One of three big Inari (god of cereals) shrine in Japan.

An ancient shrine with a long history called "Shikinaisha" since the middle of the Heian period. In the Edo period, it was called "Kifune Daimyojin". There are three stone lanterns donated by the f...

Legend "Rabbit in Inaba" is famous.

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Hokoji Temple is the head temple of the Hokoji sect of Rinzai Buddhism and is one of the leading Zen temples in the Tokai region. Founded in the 14th century on a mountainside, 22 of its buildings ...

This building was erected in the mouth of a natural cave during the Daido period (806-810). The main temple was said to have been a part of the Jinkou Temple on Mt Myoken and to have been endowed w...