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Japanese Shinto ceremonial sand-digging in London celebrates start of British Library expansion

• Elliot Hale
  Oct 2, 2026
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Swapping out scissors and ribbons for sand and farm tools.

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• Japan, UK
• (British Library • chakkoshiki • construction ceremonies • culture • groundbreaking ceremony • jichinsai • kikoshiki • Mitsui Fudosan • shinto • traditions • UK)

Go to hell! …at a limited time historical art exhibit coming to Osaka

• Master Blaster
  Sep 7, 2026

It’ll be a hell of a good time.

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• Japan
• (art • Buddhism • COK • culture • Descent into Hell • events • exhibitions • hell • jigoku • museums • mythology • Osaka • religion • shinto • Yomi)

Shinto shrine in downtown Tokyo announces cosplay ban

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 13, 2026

No more cosplaying on shrine grounds, please, says Yasukuni.

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• Japan
• (cosplay • cosplayers • culture • history • shinto • shrines • World War II • Yasukuni Shrine)

Japan opens shrine for plush toys in Kyoto, offering memorial rites and a resting place for remains

• Oona McGee
  Jun 23, 2026

A heartwarming way to say thank you to the plush toys you have loved, and who have loved you in return. 

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• Japan
• (culture • Kyoto • news • nuigurumi • plush toys • plushies • religion • shinto • shrines • soft toys • toys)

Shinto shrine will bless your bike helmet and give you a sacred bike helmet stamp

• Master Blaster
  May 2, 2026

Pray to get ahead or to keep your head.

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• Japan
• (bicycle helmets • bicycles • bicycling • COK • culture • cycling • Mie Prefecture • religion • safety • shinto • shrines)

Four Shinto shrines to pray for love at in Japan to start the New Year

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 6, 2026

Whether you’re looking for a new love or to take an existing one to the next level, the gods are ready to help you at these four Shinto spots.

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• Japan
• (culture • dating • Enmusubi • relationships • romance • shinto • shrines)

New mineral discovered in Japan named after the goddess of the sun

• Master Blaster
  Aug 19, 2025

Researchers are far from jaded about this jade.

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• Japan
• (Amaterasu • Amaterasuite • culture • jade • jadeite • mineralogy • minerals • rocks • science • shinto)

Man arrested for threatening a shrine in Kyoto because they used AI art

• Master Blaster
  Jul 4, 2025

Sometimes you have to ask yourself, “Am I acting like a demon?”

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• Japan
• (AI • art • crime • death threats • generative AI • illustration • Kurumazaki Shrine • Kyoto • shinto • shrines)

Nagoshi no Harae: the summer Shinto ritual that most Japanese people don’t even know about

• Master Blaster
  Jul 1, 2025

Have you finished all your Nagoshi no Harae shopping yet?

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• Japan
• (chinowa • hitogata • kegare • luck • Nagoshi no Harae • purification • shinto • shrines • Takami Kato)

Here are five incredible places to add to your itinerary on a visit to Shimane’s Izumo City

• Krista Rogers
  May 10, 2025

Not sure what to do in the area besides visiting one of Japan’s most ancient shrines? Here are our recommendations to make the most of your visit.

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• Japan
• (Inasa Beach • itinerary • Izumo • Izumo Taisha • Shimane Prefecture • shinto • shrine • travel)

Real-life Ghost of Tsushima shrine announces ban of all “tourists,” but there’s some fine print

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 25, 2025

After years of dealing with ill-mannered visitors, Watazumi Shrine has had enough with what it calls “the destruciton of Japanese culture.”

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• Japan
• (etiquette • Ghost of Tsushima • manners • overtourism • shinto • shrines • tourism • travel • Watazumi Shrine)

Is it OK to buy multiple shrine charms in Japan, or will it make the gods angry at you?

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 9, 2025

Japan has tens of thousands of shrines and even more omamori amulets, but is it OK to stock up on multiple blessings?

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• Japan
• (amulets • COK • culture • good luck charms • Omamori • shinto • shrines)

The etiquette rules for visiting Shinto shrines in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 7, 2025

There’s a whole lot of bowing involved.

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• Japan
• (COK • culture • etiquette • manners • shinto • shrines • tourism • travel)

Wearable blankets blessed by 1,100-year old Shinto shrine on sale in Japan, surprisingly affordable

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 29, 2024

Blessed Wearable Blankets all receive prayers that wearers will pass their entrance exams.

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• Japan
• (blanket • cool • cozy • culture • education • entrance exams • fashion • robe • roomwear • shinto • shrines • warm • wearable blanket • weird)

Japan’s newest life-size Gundam is finished, receives Shinto blessing in Osaka【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 25, 2024

RX-78F00/E Gundam strikes a pose ahead of opening of world’s fair.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • cool • crazy • Expo 2025 • Gundam • Gundam statue • life-size Gundam • manga • Osaka • shinto • video • world's fair)

A visit to Japan’s priest murder party cliffs of Tojinbo【Photos】

• SoraNews24
  Oct 14, 2024

Dramatic coastline has a dramatic reason for sharing its name with a priest from the Heian period.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • culture • Fukui • fukui prefecture • history • outdoors • shinto • shrines • SNJO • Tojinbo • tourism • travel)

1,300-year-old Kyoto shrine changes bell policy following altercation with foreign tourists【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  May 27, 2024

Shinto shrine tradition no longer possible for nighttime visitors.

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• Japan
• (Kyoto • shinto • shrine • video • Yasaka Shrine)

Nara considering increasing number of deer that can be killed each year, expanding culling zone

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 29, 2024

Nara’s deer are believed to be messengers of the gods, but they might be losing part of their protected status.

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• Japan
• (deer • Nara • Nara deer • Nara Park • shinto)

Shinto shrine naked festival ritual asks men to cover up for first time in three-century history

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 23, 2024

Loincloths at least, gentlemen, says shrine in change of policy in how to ask the gods for a good harvest and plenty of fish.

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• Japan
• (COK • culture • festivals • shinto • shrines)

This cool pen features an adorable shrine fox guardian with a swishing tail

• Dale Roll
  Oct 7, 2023

If you need a little good fortune, this just might bring it!

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • cute • fox • fox spirits • foxes • kitsune • Office Supplies • pens • shinto • shrines • stationary • torii)

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