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1900-year-old shrine with lush evergreen forest is best known by one of the three Imperial Regalia, Kusanagi sword. The shrine saw the modification after the Meiji Restoration. It is a nice place to stroll and very much like the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. To be more precise, the forest of Meiji Shrine is much younger than that of Atsuta Shrine which is more than five hundred years old in average. The shrine preccinct has a number of historical sites but I could not cover much of the places because it was a hot day and even with shade I didn't feel like staying this place much longer.
I could easily locate one of the three best traditional walls in Japan, Nobunaga-bei Wall(photo #5). It is at this shrine Nobunaga Oda prayed for the victory of the war against one of the strongest warlord based in Sumpu(currently Shizuoka). Nobunaga won the battle of Okehazama in 1560 beheading the adversary lord, Yoshimoto Imagawa. To express gratitude, Nobunaga constructed the walls for the shrine.
Its treasure museum has a lot of cultural properties including those of Japanese swords. Also you may be able to see donated artworks by some of the finest Japanese painters. I saw the names like Kiyotaka Kaburaki or Gyokudo Kawai.
Written Aug 31, 2011
It's a Shrine complex with a museum, located in a nice park-like setting with plenty of trees.
A good place for a pleasant stroll.
It enshrines the sacred sword Kusanagi-no-tsurugi
You can check out a map of the area here http://www.atsutajingu.or.jp/eng/pre/index.htm
Visit and entrance is generally Free except for the museum (Treasure Exhibition Hall), which costs 300yen.
Updated Apr 4, 2011
Tagata Shrine and Ooagata Shrine, two Shinto shrines located not so far away from one another, are considered as couple shrines. Tagata Shrine is located in Tagata-cho, Komaki City, Aichi Prefecture. It is dedicated to a god named "Mitoshino-Kami" and a goddess named "Tamahime-no-Mikoto." Ooagata jinja shrine is located a few miles northeast from Tagata shrine in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture. It is dedicated to a god named Ooagata-Oomikami. Within the shrine site is also enshrined a goddess named Tamahime-no-Mikoto.
People come to these shrines to pray for fertility, either harvest or especially to pray for having children. The shrine houses a big wooden phallus on a portable shrine, which is used in Hounen Matsuri, a fertility festival. There are many other wooden phallus in the shrine, and also stone phallus at one of a prayer corner outdoors. Even the bell is shaped like phallus. People who pray for fertility usually take one wooden phallus home, and when the prayer brings success, they return it with another phallus as a token of gratitude.
Written Dec 27, 2005
Address: Tagata-cho, Komaki City, Aichi Pref
Atsuta Shrine is one of Shinto's most important shrines. During the weekends, traditional Japanese weddings are held at the shrine (on top of the regular conducting of blessing sessions for children at ages of 3, 5 and 7). You get to hear traditional
"music" comprising the olden Japanese strings and priests raising their high-pitched voices.
Atsuta Shrine's version of the kishimen noodles, Nagoya's most famous dish, is also most yummy! Definitely a must try!
Updated Feb 24, 2005
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The Atsuta-jingu Shrine is one of Japan's 3 most important places of historical worship.
It's somewhat lacking in tourist pleasantries, as it's a working cultural shrine, but it is certainly worth a trip on a good-weather day - it's most like a park - pleasant to walk through on a sunny afternoon.
There is a museum, but we decided against the admission fee, so I cannot comment.
As with most cultural heritage sites I visited in Japan, it's just off the subway line.
Updated Mar 23, 2003
A major shrine, ranking beside Ise Shrine, that worships the Kusanagi Sword, one of the three Sacred Treasures. Nearly 8 milion people visit the shrine for worship every year. It is noted for the Nohgakuden, Nobunaga Wall, 25-cho-bashi Bridge, and Homotsu-kan (Treasure Museum) that houses many national treasures and important cultural assets such as Nihonshoki, etc
Written Feb 25, 2003
Address: 1-1-1,Jingu,Atsuta-ku,Nagoya
Located only a few miles away from its "couple", Tagata Shrine, this shrine is for female. But unlike its couple, Ooagata Shrine has no symbols of reproductive "gear".
Written Dec 27, 2005
Address: Aichi Pref., Japan
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Chinese will call it "Guan Yin" temple.
For the story of this temple, you can visit the site of Ohsu. English explanation is written in their website.
Written Mar 1, 2005
Address: 21-47 Osu 2-chome
Phone: (052)231-6525
Website: http://www.ohsu.co.jp/kan_e.html
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A temple relocated from Ohsu-sho, Gifu Pref. by Ieyasu Tokugawa in 1612.
Famous antique market is held on the 18th and the 28th every month. The Ohsu shoopping arcade nearby is alive with shoppers.
Written Feb 25, 2003
Address: 2-21-47,Ohsu,Naka-ku,Nagoya
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Go visit the giant statue of Budda at the shrine in Motoyama.
Written Sep 7, 2002
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