4 km and two hours to the 233 m summit, under ten thousand gates. Always open, free.
The climb goes straight into the senbon torii, the tunnel of ‘a thousand gates’: the torii (the red gates at the entrance to a shrine) number about ten thousand on the mountain, each one donated by worshippers. Anyone doing the full circuit walks four kilometres in two hours, up to the summit at 233 metres. At the Okusha, the inner shrine, you lift the omokaru-ishi: a stone ball that grants your wish if it weighs less than you expected.
Founded in 711, it is the head shrine of the roughly thirty thousand Inari shrines across Japan. The torii (the red gates that mark the entrance to a shrine) donated by worshippers form tunnels all the way up Mount Inari, which is 233 metres high.
🚉 Inari · 2 min walk
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It appears during Class 3-E's school trip to Kyoto: the torii tunnels on Mount Inari are the maze where the class practises reconnaissance.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
The torii tunnels are linked to a scene in episode 19, on the way to the demon slayers' headquarters.
Jujutsu Kaisen
The tunnel of a thousand torii is among the recognisable Kyoto places in ‘Jujutsu Kaisen 0’, along with Kyoto Tower, which is also on the map.
Sources: anitabi.jp · travel.co.jp · kyotopi.jp · ja.wikipedia.org · souda-kyoto.jp · online.bunka.go.jp
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