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Kashii-gu 2025 Imperial Order Matsuri

Kashii-gu 香椎宮 Fukuoka (福岡市) July 26, 2025 (Reiwa 7) About Kashii-gu Kashii-gu is the shrine that enshrines Emperor Chuai (14th emperor of Japan) and Empress Jingu. It was originally built by Emperess Jingu after Emperor Chuai was killed during his journey west. She got revenge for his death and ruled as regent until her son became took the throne. She was later enshrined here after her death. This is one of the few shrines in the country where a member of the imperial family comes in person to perform imperial rites. It is famous as both a place to pray…

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Kobi Shrine – Rebuild Crowdfunding Limited

Kobi Shrine 古井神社 Minokamo (美濃加茂市) 2025 (Reiwa 7) About Kobi Shrine Kobi shrine is our neighborhood shrine. After only a year of living in our new house, it tragically burned down in an electrical fire in the middle of the night on October 1, 2024. Thankfully no one was hurt. They opened up a crowdfunding campaign on Ready For to rebuild the shrine. We surpassed the minimum 5,000,000円 goal. We got a total of 7,320,000円 for the shrine. The money for the original goal was the amount needed just to rebuild and the excess will be used to replace the…

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Hochigai Shrine

Hochigai Shrine 方違神社 Sakai (堺市) March 29, 2025 About Hochigai Shrine The name so this shrine is extremely unusual. 方違 usually involves avoiding traveling in unlucky directions or at unlucky times. Built on a location known as “Mikuniyama” or sometimes “Mikunioka”, it’s right on the border of three provinces of Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi but does not belong to any of them, thus has no direction. Pilgrims of the Kumado Kodo visited this shrine to ward off unlucky directions before heading south. Nowadays it’s often visited by people who are about to go in a new direction in life, such…

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Funadama Shrine Goshuin

Funadama Shrine 船魂神社 Hakodate (函館市) July 26, 2025 (Reiwa 7) About Funadama Shrine A very old shrine in Hakodate, Funadama Shrine enshrines Watatsumi, Shitsuchioji, and Susanoo no Mikoto, all gods associated with water, the sea, and navigation. The shrine is situated up on the slopes leading up to Mt Hakodate, giving a great view of the harbor below. My Visit By the time we got to the shrine, we had marched all over town. We saw the red brick warehouses, the Old Public Hall, the Hakodate Orthodox Church, and more. The area the shrine is in is full of great…

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Myoshin-ji – Uryu Goshuin

Myoshin-ji 妙心寺 Kyoto (京都市) June 17, 2023 About Myoshin-ji Myoshin-ji is a large temple complex in Kyoto and the head temple for Renzai Zen Buddhism. Most of the buildings aren’t open to the public, but you can enter the quarters (kuri) and the main hall for a fee. The quarters include the gardens, kitchen, storage areas, etc of Buddhist monks and has been used for filming movies here in Japan. The main hall features a huge painting of a dragon in the clouds on the ceiling. No matter where you stand in the room, it seems to be looking at…

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Kumano Kotai Shrine (Nagano Side)

– Kumano Kotai Shrine – 熊野皇大神社- Karuizawa (軽井沢) – July 22, 2022 Kumano Kotai Shrine is one of the many shrines located along the Nakasendo Highway connecting Kyoto and Tokyo. Built right on the border between modern day Nagano Prefecture and Gunma Prefecture, you can straddle the border and literally be in both prefectures at once. There’s even a plate set into the ground marking the line. We had a good time hopping back and forth across the line. There are several goshuin available at this shrine. This is the normal goshuin available on the Nagano Prefecture side of the…

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Kumano Kotai Shrine (Famous Regional Features) (Nagano Side)

– Kumano Kotai Shrine – 熊野皇大神社- Karuizawa (軽井沢) – July 22, 2022 Kumano Kotai Shrine is one of the many shrines located along the Nakasendo Highway connecting Kyoto and Tokyo. Built right on the border between modern day Nagano Prefecture and Gunma Prefecture, you can straddle the border and literally be in both prefectures at once. There’s even a plate set into the ground marking the line. We had a good time hopping back and forth across the line. There are several goshuin available at this shrine. This is one of the special ones available on the Nagano Prefecture side…

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Nihon San Dai Kumano (Kumano Kotai Shrine) (Gunma Side)

Kumano Kotai Jinja

– Kumano Kotai Shrine – 熊野皇大神社- Karuizawa (軽井沢) – July 22, 2022 Kumano Kotai Shrine is one of the many shrines located along the Nakasendo Highway connecting Kyoto and Tokyo. Built right on the border between modern day Nagano Prefecture and Gunma Prefecture, you can straddle the border and literally be in both prefectures at once. There’s even a plate set into the ground marking the line. We had a good time hopping back and forth across the line. There are several goshuin available at this shrine. This is one of the special ones available on the Gunma Prefecture side…

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Bansho-ji – Shogi Kisei Match

Bansho-ji 万松寺 Nagoya (名古屋) July 7, 2022 About Bansho-ji Bansho-ji is a very modern and flashy looking Buddhist temple that really fits in nicely with the surrounding arcades and electronics stores, but it’s roots are very old. It was built by the Oda family in 1540 and the funeral for the father of Oda Nobunaga, Oda Nobuhide, was held here. It now houses the mortuary tablets for the Oda family. It’s popular with goshuin fans because they have a lot of beautiful designs that change every month. My Visit/This Goshuin News about the shogi player pictured on this goshuin, Sota…

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Arakura Fuji Sengen Shrine – Spring 2021

Goshuin for Arakura Fuji Sengen Shrine

Arakura Fuji Sengen Jinja 新倉富士浅間神社 Fujiyoshida (富士吉田市) April 30, 2021 (Reiwa 3) About Arakura Fuji Sengen Shrine If you’ve seen the photo with the pagoda and Mt Fuji in the background, this is the place. Arakura Fuji Sengen Shrine sits at the base of the trail up to the Arakurayama Sengen Park Observatory, where that pagoda is. The shrine itself is dedicated to the spirit of Mt Fuji and was founded in 705. The cherry blossoms here are also extremely famous. My Visit For my husband, Dude’s, first visit to Mt Fuji road trip, this was a must. I mean,…

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