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All Buddhas of Mayama

Over ten thousand Jizo Bodhisattvas covering the walls of Mayama [Oga City, Akita Prefecture]

Namahage is a visitor god passed down around the Oga Peninsula in Akita Prefecture. The Namahage Purple Festival is held once a year at Shinzan Jinja, the center of this legend, and is currently hosting the Namahage Purple Festival all over the country...

AoiwaAoiwa2025.03.03

[Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture] You can see a nationally designated natural monument! Pegmatite rocks at Kashima Ojingu...

We would like to introduce Kashima Ojingu, Nishida-cho, Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, a unique power spot where you can see a nationally designated natural monument. The sacred object of Kashima Ojingu Shrine is a giant pegmatite dyke. Until today...

Motoharu KahashiMotoharu Kahashi2025.02.28

Harumune Date, a portrait of the Sendai City Museum

Date Harumune's grave and his figure at Hoshuji Temple in Fukushima City [Fukushima Prefecture]

Date Harumune, the 15th head of the Date family, is the grandfather of Date Masamune, the first lord of the Sendai domain, and was the person who built the headquarters of the Date family in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, where Masamune was born...

AoiwaAoiwa2025.02.03

Monument in the swan

Karitamin Shrine in Zao Town, the center of "swan faith" that is passed down in the southern part of the prefecture [Miyagi Prefecture]

Zao Town, Karita District, Miyagi Prefecture. There is a shrine called Karitamine Shrine (Shiratori Daimyojin) located near the boundary between National Route 4 and the Tohoku Expressway. Karita, which has three companies in Zao Town...

AoiwaAoiwa2025.01.28

Usokae Festival Wooden Carved Uso Bird

Do you turn the various disasters of the year into lies? Takahata Tenmangu Shrine's Liar Festival Visit Report [Fuku...

Takahata Tenmangu Shrine is located in Iizakacho, Fukushima City. The "Listen Festival" held twice a year in January and April at this shrine is given a lucky charm that has a super powerful benefit, replacing various disasters of the year with "Listens"...

AoiwaAoiwa2025.01.15

Introducing popular temples and shrines recommended for the first visit to the New Year of the Year of the Snake (Fukushima Prefecture)!

Fukushima Prefecture has long been the gateway to Michinoku, and while there are many shrines and temples that have been around since the Kofun period, there are also shrines and temples that worship special deities, even though they have a short history...

Daiwa ConsilioDaiwa Consilio2024.12.27

Introducing popular temples and shrines recommended for the first visit to the New Year of the Year of the Snake [Iwate Prefecture]!

Iwate Prefecture has many classic shrines and temples for the first time in visits to the shrine, such as Hiraizumi Chuson-ji Temple, where the Oshu Fujiwara clan was flourishing, and Morioka Hachimangu Shrine, which is considered to be the most powerful spot in the prefecture. All of them are different...

Daiwa ConsilioDaiwa Consilio2024.12.27

Introducing popular temples and shrines recommended for the first visit to the New Year of the Year of the Snake (Akita Prefecture)!

The most popular destination for first-time visits in Akita Prefecture is Ohirayama Sankichi Shrine, located on the outskirts of Akita City, known as the god of success in victory, and over 100,000 people visit the shrine every day on the 3rd New Year. There are also other popular shrines at the New Year's Shrine...

Daiwa ConsilioDaiwa Consilio2024.12.26

Introducing popular temples and shrines recommended for the first visit to the New Year of the Year of the Snake (Yamagata Prefecture)!

Speaking of the first visit to Yamagata Prefecture, there are temples and shrines that are visited by many worshippers in Yamagata City, including Yamagata Gokoku Shrine, Tateishiji Temple, Yonezawa City, Uesugi Shrine, Kameoka Monju-do Hall in Takahata, and Kumano Taisha Shrine in Nanyo...

Daiwa ConsilioDaiwa Consilio2024.12.25

Introducing popular temples and shrines recommended for the first visit to the New Year of the Year of the Snake (Miyagi Prefecture)!

Miyagi Prefecture's first visit to the shrine is full of popular shrines, including Osaki Hachiman Shrine and Toshogu Shrine in Sendai City, as well as Takekoma Shrine, one of Japan's three major Inari shrines, and Shiogama Shrine, the Mutsu Province Ichinomiya. that...

Daiwa ConsilioDaiwa Consilio2024.12.24

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