Amanoiwato-jinja

You climb up to the main shrine holding on to a chain on the rock face.

The gorge narrows and the stream runs below: the main building does not stand on a level forecourt, it stands on a rock face, and to reach it you hold on to a metal chain fixed to the rock. Anyone who does not feel up to it stays below, and from there sees the Iwato gorge and the 御座石, the stone on which tradition seats the gods. There is no ticket office and no staff: there is the sound of the water.

One of the 元伊勢三社, the three shrines of Ōe said to predate Ise: local tradition holds that the deities later worshipped at the great shrine of Ise stopped here before being moved there. It stands set deep in a gorge on the stream.

ℹ️ No opening hours and no ticket stated. ⚠️ Access to the main building is a climb up rock with a metal chain: this is accessibility information, not a figure of speech. Anyone who does not intend to climb still sees the gorge and the seat stone from below. ⚠️ No open source states how to get there: not the means of transport, not the minutes, not the distance from the Ōe shrine that stands nearby. ⚠️ There is another Amanoiwato-jinja, in Miyazaki Prefecture, already in the catalogue: it is a different shrine with the same name, and the two must not be confused or merged.

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Sources: dokkoise.com

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