He is waiting for running water, so... You can help him. Pouty Face If you enter from an entrance, several statues of frogs would greet you with their cute faces. This shrine has a pair of guardian "frogs" instead of guardian dogs. In Japa…

Mitsumine shrine has several guardian Japanese wolfs instead of dogs, which is a first unique point of this shrine. Moreover, main gods enshrined are Izanagi and Izamani who are the creator of Japan in Japanese mythology. These old buildin…

There is a pair of monkey statues. The chinese character of the monkey is described as "猿", which pronounced as "saru" or "en". The "saru" means bad things "passing" in Japanese, and the "en" means "lucky connection" in Japanese.

There are several guardian dogs, which have unique and cute faces.The history of this shrine is so long, which is said that it has been built on 1400 years ago.Moreover, this shrine is called as "Hisaizu", which spells "久伊豆", but the wo…