The following article appeared in Gaijinpot and puts in coherent form the legends and traditions that one sometimes hears about when visiting shrines. The original written by Matthew Coslett appeared on Oct 29, 2021 in Gaijinpot here.
Category: Oddities (Page 1 of 6)
The Japanese train station with torii gates on its tracks
By Oona McGee, SoraNews May 31, 2021
We’ve seen a lot of unusual train stations in Japan over the years. Over in Gunma, there’s a station where persimmons hang … Read the rest
(The following is excerpted from an article in the Japan Times. For the full article, see here.)
OKAYAMA – Many shrines and temples in Japan sell amulets for good health, but a shrine in Okayama Prefecture … Read the rest
Every year there’s a Shinto festival held at the Sumiyoshi Shrine in Uto City, Kumamoto Prefecture, to an English woman called Kathleen Drew. (Her full name was Kathleeen Mary Drew-Baker.) It’s a curious phenomenon which reminds … Read the rest
Yesterday I took a walk through Gion to explore the ’empty Kyoto’ phenomenon. The crowded teeming streets of overtourism days a few months ago have been transformed into … Read the rest
The following is put together from an article by the Associated Press which appeared in the Mainichi and Japan Today. The article tells of a shrine in Tokyo that at the beginning of May provided an online service for … Read the rest
Suwa Taisha is one of the country’s oldest shrines and well worth a visit for anyone near Nagano Prefecture. Green Shinto has covered the shrine before (click here for a fully illustrated account). This time … Read the rest