World Heritage Shinto shrines
In 2012 for a Tuttle book, published two years later as Japan’s World Heritage Sites, I travelled the length of Japan visiting all of the Unesco sites. Along the way I was intrigued by the number … Read the rest
Category: Shrine visits (Page 5 of 21)
Security guards at Japanese shrine stand out with anime-like uniforms for New Year
By Dale Roll, SoraNews24 (Japan Today Jan. 14, 2017)
Japan requires uniforms for everything. High school uniforms, of course, are the most famous, but spend
Every year I like to visit my local shrine, which just happens to be a World Heritage site. Shimogamo Jinja in the north of Kyoto is surrounded by an ancient grove known as Tadasu no mori, and during the more … Read the rest
A shrine that dates back to 709. A huge imposing torii. And next to it an ancient sake factory, now a museum, in front of which tourist coaches pull up throughout the day.
It’s only half an hour from Kyoto, … Read the rest
Green Shinto has covered the current boom in ‘power spots’ on several occasions, and an overview of how, when and why it developed can be found in a previous posting here. Tokyo Daijingu is Kanto’s most famous example, though … Read the rest
Imagine a small but atmospheric old shrine, with Japanese garden and wild nature beyond. Imagine entering the shrine gate and turning left into a large rambling wooden house you call home. Imagine too just outside your front door is a … Read the rest
Hearn’s first shrine visit came in cherry blossom time in Yokohama, fresh after his arrival there by ship from Vancouver. It was in Hearn’s honeymoon period, when he was elated with being ‘in fairyland’ where everything was enchanting, elfish and … Read the rest