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[Miyagi] [Departing from Sendai Station on January 13th] A life trip to experience the gods of Zao that combines mountain worship. Reservations for a 2-night, 3-day winter cultural experience tour of Miyagi Zao (Zao Town, Miyagi Prefecture)
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Overview
  • This tour combines two traditional cultures with different stories of worshipping Mt. Katta in the Zao mountain range, and is a life trip experience where you can feel close to the "gods" at two shrines that have been the spiritual anchors of local residents since ancient times.
  • This festival is held every year at Kattamine Shrine in the Akatsuki Mairimiya area of Kattamine Shrine. For the past 70 years, men who are in their unlucky years (42 years old in the traditional Japanese age reckoning system) have carried 100-kan shimenawa ropes and paraded through the town before making an offering to the 500-year-old sacred tree, a pair of cedars in the shrine grounds. In addition, kagura performances and a Dondo festival are held in the shrine grounds.
  • In order to visually raise awareness of the mountain gods of mountain worship, a lighting production will be held at Yugami Shrine during events that utilizes light (illuminations and searchlights) to shine in the direction of
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1/13 Departure from Sendai Station - A life trip to experience the gods of Zao that combines mountain worship - Winter cultural experience tour of Miyagi Zao (2 nights, 3 days)

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