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Beautiful 785-step Japanese shrine sando stairway walk is one very good reason to visit Kagawa

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 31, 2026
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A sweaty, but unforgettable, visit to Kompirasan.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • COK • cool • hiking • Japan travel • Kagawa • Kompirasan • Kotohira • Kotohiragu • Mountains • outdoors • Shikoku • shrine • SNJO • temples • tourism • travel)

Enoshima’s magical night lantern festival is back this summer with spectacular views

• Elliot Hale
  Jul 12, 2026

An island transforms into a wonderland of digital art, musical sea shells, and 1,000 glowing lanterns.

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• Japan
• (art • beautiful • culture • day-trips • digital art • digital art exhibition • Enoshima • Enoshima Tourou • festival • Fujisawa • illumination • Japanese lanterns • Kanagawa • lantern festival • shrine • summer festival • tourism • travel)

Shizuoka hot springs town invites you to see one of the longest hina doll displays in Japan

• Krista Rogers
  Feb 17, 2026

This stairway of hina dolls at a local shrine is a true sight to behold and might actually make you lose your breath for good reason.

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• Japan
• (big • display • Doll Festival • dolls • festival • hina matsuri • hot springs • Inatori Onsen • Japan travel • march • Shizuoka Prefecture • shrine • Susano Shrine • tourism • travel)

Play games, learn, and get your fortune at Ginza’s limited-time Tsunaguu “Shrine of the Future”

• Krista Rogers
  Jan 5, 2026

Even better, it’s a completely free way to spend some time in Tokyo’s upscale Ginza shopping district.

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• Japan
• (COK • digital • game • Ginza • Ginza 456 • KDDI • projection mapping • puzzles • shrine • SNJO • sugoroku • technology • Tokyo)

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)

Forbidden area at Japanese mountaintop shrine opens to the public for first time in 400 years

• Oona McGee
  Nov 21, 2024

Be one of the first outsiders in centuries to enter this secret sacred area.

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• Japan
• (amazing • architecture • COK • culture • japanese architecture • Japanese shrine • Shizuoka • shogun • shogunate • shrine • shrines • SNJO • Tokugawa Ieyasu • tourism • tourist sites • travel)

Japan’s Island of Sea Cats: A unique site you won’t find in tourist guides

• Oona McGee
  Jul 21, 2024

An unusual shrine that goes to ruin for a season, all in the name of good luck poo.

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• Japan
• (Aomori • birds • COK • island • nature • seagulls • shrine • SNJO • tourism • travel • umineko)

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)

Aichi man arrested for failing to steal very large donation box from Shinto shrine

• Master Blaster
  Apr 25, 2023

Karma police, arrest this man.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • crime • donation box • Nishio • saisenbako • shinto • shrine • strange • theft)

How Kyoto’s shrine of severing ties helped our reporter escape from a “black company”

• Dale Roll
  Mar 17, 2022

Yasui Konpiragu worked its magic, but for once, not in the terrifying way it usually does.

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• Japan
• (black company • Kyoto • Mariko Ohanabatake • shinto • shrine • superstition • wishes • Yasui Konpiragu Shrine)

Preserve a piece of Japanese culture during Corona with your own mini shrine hand-washing ladle

• Dale Roll
  Sep 23, 2021

Take your own hishaku ladle with you to purify yourself before entering a Shinto shrine. 

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• Japan
• (COK • COVID-19 • culture • hishaku • Japanese culture • purification • shinto • shrine • shrines)

We try a delicious hidden gem in Fukuoka, unknown to even Japanese people

• Katie Pask
  Mar 22, 2021

It might not be well known, but that doesn’t make it any less mouth-watering!

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• Japan
• (food • Fukuoka • local delicacy • matsugae mochi • meibutsu • miyajidake • miyajidake shrine • mochi • shrine)

When Kyoto snow falls, this mountain shrine becomes one of the most beautiful places in the city

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 3, 2021

Grab your coat, because winter is an amazing time to see Kyoto’s Kifune Shrine.

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• Japan
• (beautiful • Kibune • Kifune Shrine • Kyoto • shrine • snow • travel • winter)

Japanese water purification ritual at shrines under threat due to the pandemic

• Oona McGee
  Dec 5, 2020

Shrine enthusiasts come up with a clever solution to help preserve an important tradition.

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• Japan
• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • culture • hishaku • new normal • purification rituals • religion • shrine • shrine goods • shrines • temples • tradition)

Akihabara’s otaku shrine celebrates PlayStation 5 launch with ethereal one-night event

• Oona McGee
  Nov 12, 2020

The PS5 is welcomed into the world at a Japanese shrine with a long history of protecting electronics.

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • anime • cool • festival • games • gaming • Kanda • Kanda Myojin Shrine • otaku • PlayStation 5 • projection mapping • shrine • shrines • Sony • video games)

Akihabara shrine celebrates anime festival Noryo Matsuri on an Animal Crossing Dream Island

• Dale Roll
  Sep 16, 2020

Keep the spirit of summer festivals alive, digitally!

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• Japan
• (Akihabara • Animal Crossing • anime • cool • cute • festival • fun • Kanda Myojin Shrine • otaku • shrine • summer)

Event held to watch noodles go down a long water slide, but no noodle eating allowed

• Master Blaster
  Aug 17, 2020

Ain’t no noodle party like a Shimane noodle party.

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• Japan
• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • culture • nagashi somen • Shimane • shrine • Taikodani Inari)

Gotta stamp them all! Collect your shrine stamps with this gorgeous new range of stationery

• Katie Pask
  May 28, 2020

Preserve your shrine memories in style with these stamp books!

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• Japan
• (beautiful • culture • cute • goshuin • goshuincho • Japanese culture • Japanese religion • notebook • shrine • stationary • temple • Village Vanguard)

Yaoi fans rejoice as Shinto shrine seems to open part-time positions for male shrine maidens

• Dale Roll
  Nov 22, 2017

This could have been a fangirl’s dream come true.

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• Japan
• (job opportunity • miko • shrine • shrine maiden)

“Cat shrine” status causing problems for Japan’s millennium-old Izumoiwai Shrine

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 15, 2016

Priests struggling to humanely keep cat population under control, asking for visitors’ help.

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• Japan
• (animal welfare • animals • cat shrine • cats • culture • religion • shinto • shrine)

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