Best Shrines Spot List

“I have come to this land and my heart is sugasugashi (refreshed).” Suga Shrine is the tutelary shrine of 18 towns in Yotsuya, Tokyo.

Wish upon the matchmaking deity for success in love

Benzaiten, one of the seven lucky gods of Asakusa, is enshrined, and is said to bring benefits such as business success

A well-known shrine for its Chichibu Night Festival. Chichibu shrine enshrines several gods and has a history of over 2,100 years.

A shrine for a popular matchmaking deity and associated with the puppet play “Sonezaki Shinju”

The most sacred of the three Dewa Sanzan

Boasts an amazing stage modeled after a lion mask

The main shrine hall is a national treasure with droves of people lining up for the New Year’s shrine visit at “Sumiyossan”

Here resides the god who watches over Kyoto's kitchens

A sacred place connected to Hideyoshi

The source of worship to Nachi Falls

Famous for its strange festival, the Kurama Fire Festival

A shrine that has a beautiful vermilion-lacquered shrine pavilion from the Edo period. It is also called Sanja Gongen (in honor of three men who founded the temple), and the Sanja Matsuri held in May is one of the Three Great Festivals of Edo (now Tokyo).

Where the guardian buck and doe are enshrined

Encounter a god of matchmaking in a busy district

This is an auspicious shrine because of the kanji characters that are used for writing its name Hodosan can also be read as ”climbing a mountain of treasures.” The deities who protect people from fire, thefts, and other disasters are enshrined there.

For those who want to succeed like Hideyoshi did

This lushly green shrine faces Midosuji boulevard and is more than 1600 years old

Founded in 1895 for the 1,100th anniversary of the relocation of the capital city to the Heian-kyo, the shrine reproduces the Imperial Palace of the Heian-kyo. It enshrines Emperor Kanmu and Emperor Komei.

The head shrine of Oshu, boasting 1,200 years of history