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長野県 · Shrines & temples

Suwa Taisha

諏訪市ほか南信

Four shrines make it up: Kamisha Honmiya and Maemiya, Shimosha Akimiya and Harumiya, and some of them have no main hall at all. Once every seven years…

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Zenkoji

長野市北信

A temple belonging to no sect at all. Because it took in everyone regardless of school, it was also one of the few sacred sites that never restricted …

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Togakushi Jinja

長野市北信

Five shrines in all, including Okusha, Chusha and Hokosha. The avenue of cedars running about 500 metres to Okusha is famous. The name comes from the …

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Yohashira Jinja

松本市中信

Because it enshrines four deities, it is called the god who ties wishes together. It faces Nawate-dori.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Anrakuji

上田市東信

Its octagonal three-storey pagoda is a National Treasure, and the only octagonal wooden pagoda still standing in Japan.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Ikushima Tarushima Jinja

上田市東信

Its object of worship is the ground itself, beneath the floor of the main hall. Many written prayers by Takeda Shingen survive here.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Kamisha Honmiya

諏訪市南信

One of the four shrines. It has no main hall, keeping the older form of worshipping the mountain itself.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Kamisha Maemiya

茅野市南信

The only one of the four with a main hall. Held to be the birthplace of Suwa belief.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Shimosha Akimiya

下諏訪町南信

The shrine where the deity resides from August to January. Its bronze guardian lions are said to be the largest in Japan.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Shimosha Harumiya

下諏訪町南信

The deity resides here from February to July. It is said to have been built from the same plans as Akimiya.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Togakushi Okusha

長野市北信

It stands at the end of an avenue of cedars some 500 metres long, enshrining the deity who threw the heavenly rock door.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Kuzuryusha

長野市北信

The land deity, held to be older than Okusha. A god of rain and of toothache.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Kitamuki Kannon

上田市東信

An unusual hall that faces north. Visiting it together with Zenkoji is a custom of long standing.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Jorakuji

上田市東信

Its stone tahoto pagoda is an Important Cultural Property. It is the head temple of Kitamuki Kannon.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Kaiko Jinja

小諸市東信

It stands on the site of Komoro Castle, an ana-jiro that sits lower than the town below it.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Ganshoin

小布施町北信

The ceiling painting of a phoenix that stares from every angle, painted by Katsushika Hokusai in his last years.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Ontake Jinja

木曽町中信

It worships Mount Ontake in Kiso. The Ontake-ko spread in the Edo period, turning it into a sacred mountain ordinary people could climb.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Manji no Sekibutsu

下諏訪町南信

A stone Buddha seated near Harumiya. Known because Okamoto Taro praised it so highly.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Mikaeri no To

青木村東信

So beautiful that people turn back to look, which is why it is called the pagoda that makes you look back.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Yohashira Jinja

松本市中信

The god who ties wishes together. It enshrines four deities.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Hotaka Jinja

安曇野市中信

A sea deity enshrined in the mountains, held to be a trace of the Azumi people who moved inland to Shinshu.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Obasute

千曲市北信

The moon reflects in every single paddy. Basho came here.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Manji Sekibutsu

下諏訪町南信

You walk around it three times, saying may all things be settled.

長野県 · Shrines & temples

Kozenji

駒ヶ根市南信

It carries the legend of Hayataro, the divine dog. Luminous moss grows here.