鹿児島県 · Shrines & temples
Kurokami Torii
鹿児島市 鹿児島
In the Taisho eruption a torii three metres high was buried up to its top rail.
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Kaimondake
指宿市 南薩
The Fuji of Satsuma. A cone rising straight out of the sea.
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Yaku Jinja
屋久島町 離島
The base for the mountain pilgrimages of Yakushima.
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Amami
奄美市 離島
Each village on the island keeps its own sacred ground, called a kamiyama. Amami Oshima is a World Natural Heritage site.
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Homan Jinja
南種子町 離島
It preserves a rite using red rice, keeping an old form of rice growing in Japan.
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Kamo Hachimangu
姶良市 鹿児島
The great camphor of Kamo in its grounds is the largest tree in Japan, 24 metres round the trunk.
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Terukuni Otorii
鹿児島市 鹿児島
It stands at the centre of the city with Sakurajima behind it.
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Arata Hachimangu
鹿児島市 鹿児島
One of the tutelary shrines of Satsuma.
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Fukushoji
鹿児島市 鹿児島
The funerary temple of the Shimazu. It was lost in the anti-Buddhist movement, and only the graves remain.
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Shakutai Jinja
霧島市 霧島
The original shrine of Kagoshima Jingu. You take a pebble home, and return twice as many after a safe birth.
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Kiyomizu Magaibutsu
南九州市 南薩
Hundreds of five-ringed pagodas and Sanskrit characters are carved into the cliff along the Manose river.
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Toyotamahime Jinja
南九州市 南薩
The shrine of the Chiran Nebuta festival.
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Kamafuta Jinja
南九州市 南薩
Worshippers walk the approach with a pot lid balanced on their heads. A faith for fortune in war and in contests.
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Chokushiden
指宿市 南薩
A vermilion envoy hall, standing with Mount Kaimon at its back.
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Tokumitsu Jinja
指宿市 南薩
It enshrines Maeda Riemon, who spread the sweet potato through Japan.
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Minamikata Jinja
枕崎市 南薩
The tutelary shrine of a bonito town.
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Takachiho Jinja (Amami)
奄美市 離島
The tutelary shrine of Amami Oshima.
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Yaku Jinja
屋久島町 離島
The starting point for the mountain pilgrimages of Yakushima.
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Homan Jinja
南種子町 離島
A rite that guards and hands on red rice, keeping an old form of Japanese rice growing.
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Kamiyama
奄美市 離島
Sacred ground surviving in each village. A form of island faith apart from shrines.
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Hakozaki Hachiman Jinja
出水市 霧島
It displays the largest bell in Japan.
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Nitta Jinja
薩摩川内市 鹿児島
First shrine of Satsuma Province, standing on Mount Shinki.
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Sefa-utaki
南城市 本島南部
The centre of belief in Okinawa is neither shrine nor temple but the utaki: a place with no building, where a forest or a rock itself is worshipped. T…
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Naminouegu
那覇市 本島南部
It stands on a cliff, so that worship faces out towards the paradise held to lie beyond the sea.
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