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神奈川県 · Shrines & temples

Oyamadera

伊勢原市県央

Halfway up to Afuri Jinja. Known for kawarake-nage, throwing clay discs.

神奈川県 · Shrines & temples

Iseyama Kotai Jingu

横浜市横浜・川崎

The Ise of eastern Japan. It was built as the tutelary shrine of the newly opened port of Yokohama.

神奈川県 · Shrines & temples

Sojiji

横浜市横浜・川崎

A great head temple of Soto Zen, moved here from Noto. Its precinct is vast.

神奈川県 · Shrines & temples

Amekiri

川崎市横浜・川崎

The rhythmic sound of the knives has become the signature of the approach.

神奈川県 · Shrines & temples

Kamakura Daibutsu

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

The great hall was swept away by a tsunami, and the Buddha has sat in the open ever since.

神奈川県 · Shrines & temples

Sanshokan

横浜市横浜・川崎

The main gate of a great Soto Zen head temple, with the vast precinct of a temple moved from Noto.

神奈川県 · Shrines & temples

Kanteibyo

横浜市横浜・川崎

The guardian of Chinatown. It enshrines Guan Yu.

神奈川県 · Shrines & temples

Shomyoji

横浜市横浜・川崎

It housed the Kanazawa Bunko library. Its Pure Land garden has been restored.

神奈川県 · Shrines & temples

Jufukuji

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

Third of the five great Zen temples of Kamakura. Cave tombs here are said to hold Hojo Masako and Minamoto no Sanetomo.

神奈川県 · Shrines & temples

Jochiji

鎌倉市鎌倉・湘南

Fourth of the five great Zen temples of Kamakura. Its Hotei is one of the seven gods of fortune of Kamakura.

新潟県 · Shrines & temples

Yahiko Jinja

弥彦村中越

Its deity is said to have taught the people of Echigo how to grow rice and make salt. Rice and salt: the sake and the preserved foods of this land bot…

新潟県 · Shrines & temples

Kasugayama Jinja

上越市上越

It enshrines Uesugi Kenshin. Built on the site of his castle at Kasugayama, it also keeps the Bishamondo where Kenshin worshipped Bishamonten.

新潟県 · Shrines & temples

Sado Kokubunji

佐渡市佐渡

Sado has a history of religious figures being exiled here, Dogen and Nichiren among them, and it holds a stratum of belief unlike the mainland.

新潟県 · Shrines & temples

Hakusan Jinja

新潟市下越

The tutelary shrine of Niigata, at the heart of a port town that opened out at the mouth of the Shinano river.

新潟県 · Shrines & temples

Kokujoji

燕市中越

Held to be the oldest temple in Echigo. Gogo-an, where Ryokan lived for years, still stands on the mountain.

新潟県 · Shrines & temples

Myosenji

佐渡市佐渡

It has the only five-storey pagoda on Sado. Said to have been founded by a disciple who followed Nichiren into exile.

新潟県 · Shrines & temples

Yahikosan Goshinbyo

弥彦村中越

At the 634-metre summit of Mount Yahiko. The inner shrine enshrines the deity and his consort.

新潟県 · Shrines & temples

Omoi no Ishi

弥彦村中越

A stone you lift while holding your wish in mind. If it feels light, the wish is said to be granted.

新潟県 · Shrines & temples

Myosenji Gojunoto

佐渡市佐渡

The only five-storey pagoda on Sado, said to be modelled on the pagoda at Nikko Tosho-gu.

新潟県 · Shrines & temples

Konponji

佐渡市佐渡

Built where Nichiren lived during his exile on Sado.

新潟県 · Shrines & temples

Sado Kokubunji

佐渡市佐渡

A provincial temple was established on the island, proof that Sado mattered from early times.

新潟県 · Shrines & temples

Hakusan Hime Jinja

長岡市中越

The tutelary shrine of a kitamaebune port of call. Many votive ship paintings have been dedicated here.

新潟県 · Shrines & temples

Aoshi Jinja

長岡市中越

It enshrines the Makino, lords of the Nagaoka domain, and is known for the cherry blossom of Yukyuzan Park.

新潟県 · Shrines & temples

Gogoan

燕市中越

The hermitage where Ryokan lived for twenty years, known for his letter on how to meet calamity.