徳島県 · Shrines & temples
Awa Kokubunji
徳島市 東部
Its Momoyama-period dry landscape garden is a Place of Scenic Beauty.
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Kannonji (Tokushima)
徳島市 東部
It carries a faith for stopping a child's night crying.
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Ichinomiya Jinja
徳島市 東部
One of the shrines claiming to be first of Awa Province.
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Onzanji
小松島市 南部
Said to be where Kukai received his mother. Until then women were barred.
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Hinomine Jinja
小松島市 南部
It looks out over the Kii Channel.
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Byodoji
阿南市 南部
You climb the men's and women's misfortune slopes to reach the main hall.
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Saba Daishi
海陽町 南部
It preserves the custom of saba-dachi, giving up salted mackerel while making a vow.
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Ohama
美波町 南部
A nesting ground for loggerhead turtles. A land that reveres what the sea gives.
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Kotohira
阿南市 南部
It guards the easternmost cape of Shikoku.
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Jintsudaki
神山町 東部
A place of practice along the pilgrim road to Shosanji.
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Unpenji
三好市 西部
At 911 metres, the highest of the Shikoku sacred sites, and another pilgrim-breaker.
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Hashikuraji
三好市 西部
The main hall and five other buildings are Important Cultural Properties. A ropeway runs up.
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Oboke
三好市 西部
A gorge cut by the Yoshino river. Small shrines praying for safe passage are dotted along it.
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Kotohiragu
琴平町 中讃
The approach runs 785 steps to the main shrine and 1,368 to the inner one. In the Edo period, when free travel was difficult, a Konpira pilgrimage was…
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Zentsuji
善通寺市 中讃
Held to be the birthplace of Kukai. It sits near the end of the road that begins in Tokushima.
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Yashimaji
高松市 高松
On top of Yashima, looking down on the old battlefield of the Genpei war.
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Tamura Jinja
高松市 高松
First shrine of Sanuki Province. A dragon is said to live in the bottomless pool in its grounds, and looking into it was held to bring a curse.
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Negoroji
高松市 高松
A mountain temple on the circuit, carrying the legend of the ushi-oni. Also famous for autumn colour.
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Izutama Jinja
琴平町 中讃
The inner shrine. A tengu is carved into the cliff at 421 metres.
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Omote Shoin
琴平町 中讃
Wall paintings by Maruyama Okyo survive here.
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Zentsuji Gojunoto
善通寺市 中讃
The birthplace of Kukai. The pagoda stands 43 metres.
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Shidoji
さぬき市 東讃
It carries the legend of the diving woman who retrieved the jewel, the setting of the Noh play Ama.
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Okuboji
さぬき市 東讃
The temple of fulfilment. Pilgrims leave their staffs here.
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Zenigata Sunae
観音寺市 西讃
A huge sand drawing in the shape of a Kanei-tsuho coin. Seeing it is said to keep you from want of money.
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