Sakaki Jinja

第六天榊神社

Enjoy a visit to Sakaki Shrine in Taito-ku in Tokyo. Our guide explains some of the features you will experience on a visit to any Shinto shrine.

These include the torii or shrine gate, stone lanterns known as toro, sando, the shrine path way, temisuya or chozuya, a water basin for purification, komainu, lion-dog guardians, ema, votive plaques and inari, foxes.

The honden is the main building where the shrine's kami (gods) live. The haiden is where worshippers to the shrine pray.




Sakaki Shrine
Taito-ku
Kuramae 1-4-3
Tokyo

The nearest stations are JR Asakusabashi Station and Kuramae Station on the Toei Asakusa Line.


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Usa Shrine Kunisaki

宇佐八幡宮

The original Usa-jinja (Tel: 0978 37 0001) in Usa in the Kunisaki Peninsula on Kyushu dates back over 1,000 years to 725 and the shrine is dedicated to Hachiman - the god of war and warriors.

The shrine is the oldest Hachiman shrine in Japan and ranks as one of the most important Shinto shrines in the country, up there with Ise Jingu and Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya.

Hachiman is the deified Emperor Ojin, a legendary Emperor of Japan. Hachiman shrines have now spread throughout Japan from this first shrine in Kyushu. The present shrine buildings date from the mid-nineteenth century.

Usa Shrine has attracted imperial support over its long history and there are now over 40,000 branches shrines of Hachiman all over Japan.

The annual Usa shrine festival is held on March 18.

Usa Jingu

Oita
Usa
Oji, Minami-usa 2859
872-0102
Tel: 0978 37 0001

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Shoin Shrine Hagi

吉田 松陰

One of the most popular tourist sites in Hagi is the Shoin Shrine enshrining Yoshida Shoin (1830-1859). He was a local samurai who was executed in 1859 for his part in an asassination plot against Ii Naosuke - a government official - but is mostly known for being a teacher of many of the leading members of the new Meiji government, which took over power from the Tokugawa regime in 1868.



The shrine was established in 1890 and moved to its present location in 1955. The original shrine is just to the north of the present shrine and it now enshrines the students of Yoshida Shoin.



Within the grounds of the shrine is his old classroom where he taught the likes of Ito Hirobumi (1841-1909), Japan's first Prime Minister.



Also within the grounds is a small museum on Yoshida that mostly consists of life-size tableau depicting events from his short and dramatic life.



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