Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine Kyoto

Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine kyoto

Fushimi Inari Taisha is a shrine with a fantastic atmosphere and famous for its thousand torii gates.

I went to Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto, which is famous for the Senbon Torii

It is a story of going to Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine, which is visited by the most worshipers in the Kansai region at the beginning of the New Year.

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Fushimi Inari Taisha is also famous for foxes

The precincts are also large and spacious

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Fushimi Inari Taisha Precincts

If you look at the map, it will be easy to understand, but the famous Senbon Torii starts at the foot of Mt. Inari.

I also decided to walk toward the summit of Mt. Inari.

Fushimi Inari Taisha Thousand torii

The natural scenery of the thousand torii gates and the mountains blends in and looks fantastic.

There is a pond because it is in the mountains

You can get a panoramic view of Kyoto from the middle of Mt. Inari. The city of Kyoto cherishes the old-fashioned landscape, and there are not many skyscrapers standing.

View from Mt. Inari

Mt. Inari is a small mountain with an altitude of 233m, so you can climb it as if you were hiking.

Unlike other mountains, the summit has shrines and the scenery is different, which is interesting.

On the way back, the Senbon Torii after sunset creates a different atmosphere from the daytime.

Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine is close to Osaka and has good access, and of course, it is also close to Gion and Shijo Kawaramachi in downtown Kyoto, so you can go on a day trip.

Fushimi Inari-taisha the head shrine of the kami Inari, located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The shrine sits at the base of a mountain also named Inari which is 233 metres (764 ft) above sea level, and includes trails up the mountain to many smaller shrines which span 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) and take approximately 2 hours to walk up.^[1]

Inari was originally and remains primarily the kami of rice and agriculture, but merchants and manufacturers also worship Inari as the patron of business. Each of Fushimi Inari-taisha’s roughly thousand torii was donated by a Japanese business.

Owing to the popularity of Inari’s division and re-enshrinement, this shrine is said to have as many as 32,000 sub-shrines (分社 bunsha) throughout Japan.^[2]
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