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福井県 · Shrines & temples

Shinokura Jinja

大野市嶺北

A sacred spring rises here, said to be good for ailments of the eye.

福井県 · Shrines & temples

Nakaikemi

敦賀市嶺南

A lowland marsh holding forty thousand years of strata.

福井県 · Shrines & temples

Shibata Jinja

福井市嶺北

It enshrines Shibata Katsuie and Lady Oichi, on the site of Kitanosho Castle.

福井県 · Shrines & temples

Fujishima Jinja

福井市嶺北

It enshrines Nitta Yoshisada.

福井県 · Shrines & temples

Ochisan

越前町嶺北

The mountain where Taicho, who opened Hakusan, first trained.

福井県 · Shrines & temples

Ominato Jinja

坂井市嶺北

A sacred island afloat off Tojinbo, reached by a vermilion bridge.

福井県 · Shrines & temples

Happyaku Bikuni

小浜市嶺南

A cave here is said to be where a nun who ate mermaid flesh and lived eight hundred years entered her final meditation.

福井県 · Shrines & temples

Uriwari no Taki

若狭町嶺南

Water so cold, they say, that it split a melon. It rises in the grounds of Tokutokuji.

福井県 · Shrines & temples

Echizen Daibutsu

勝山市嶺北

Seventeen metres tall, a seated figure larger than the Great Buddha of Nara.

福井県 · Shrines & temples

Tounji

大野市嶺北

A Zen temple in the castle town of Echizen-Ono.

山梨県 · Shrines & temples

Kitaguchi Hongu Fuji Sengen Jinja

富士吉田市郡内（富士北麓）

The start of the Yoshida trail up Mount Fuji. This was the road the Fuji-ko pilgrims of the Edo period took to the summit. A component of the Fujisan …

山梨県 · Shrines & temples

Takeda Jinja

甲府市国中

It enshrines Takeda Shingen. Built on the site of the Tsutsujigasaki residence, it recalls that Shingen raised no castle, holding that people were his…

山梨県 · Shrines & temples

Minobusan Kuonji

身延町峡南

The head temple of the Nichiren school. The Bodaitei stairway from the gate to the main hall runs to 287 steps, steep enough to leave you breathless i…

山梨県 · Shrines & temples

Kawaguchi Asama Jinja

富士河口湖町郡内（富士北麓）

Built to quiet the great Jogan eruption. The seven cedars along its approach are a prefectural Natural Monument.

山梨県 · Shrines & temples

Erinji

甲州市国中

The funerary temple of Takeda Shingen. Its garden, laid out by Muso Soseki, is a Place of Scenic Beauty.

山梨県 · Shrines & temples

Daizenji

甲州市国中

Its main hall is a National Treasure. Because its principal image holds a bunch of grapes it is called the grape temple, and it carries the tradition …

山梨県 · Shrines & temples

Yoshidaguchi

富士吉田市郡内（富士北麓）

The path from Kitaguchi Hongu to the summit, walked by the Fuji-ko pilgrims of Edo.

山梨県 · Shrines & temples

Oshi Jutaku

富士吉田市郡内（富士北麓）

Lodgings that housed Fuji-ko pilgrims. Faith had become a travel business.

山梨県 · Shrines & temples

Oshino Hakkai

忍野村郡内（富士北麓）

Eight pools fed by groundwater from Fuji. They served as the place of purification before the climb.

山梨県 · Shrines & temples

Kanazakura Jinja

甲府市国中

Its sacred treasure is rock crystal, and it is held to be the origin of crystal working here. It draws prayers for wealth.

山梨県 · Shrines & temples

Kai Zenkoji

甲府市国中

Shingen founded it by moving the principal image of Zenkoji in Shinano. Its main hall is among the largest in eastern Japan.

山梨県 · Shrines & temples

Unpoji

甲州市国中

It preserves the Sun Tzu banner of the Takeda. The main hall and three other buildings are Important Cultural Properties.

山梨県 · Shrines & temples

Shishinkaku

身延町峡南

Where Nichiren thought of his parents back home. A ropeway runs up to it.

山梨県 · Shrines & temples

Yamanashioka Jinja

笛吹市国中

One theory holds that the prefecture's name, Yamanashi, comes from this shrine.