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A Tenjin shrine founded in the Nanbokucho era with a plum garden — exam season brings a stream of students seeking Michizane's blessing

The chief guardian of Tsudanuma since the Heian period — a spiritual anchor of the military city that developed after Emperor Meiji's 1873 exercises

A Gion-worship shrine near the Ramsar-listed Yatsu tidal flats — the summer Gion Festival preserves Heian-era plague-warding faith

A Nichiren temple founded in 1330, carrying Lotus Sutra faith in Shimosa — the annual Oeshiki lantern procession lights up the precinct

The tutelary shrine of old Makuhari village from the mid-Heian period — jointly enshrining Amaterasu and the martial deity of Kashima

A branch of Suwa Taisha of Shinano, enshrining Takeminakata no Mikoto — Narashino's largest autumn portable shrine procession is its pride

A Jodo temple founded in 1550, rooted in Okubo where army grounds once stood — continuing the nenbutsu tradition to this day

The guardian shrine of Mimomi since the late Heian period — autumn Niinamesai offerings of new rice preserve the harvest-gratitude tradition

A Gozu Tenno shrine of medieval Shimosa renamed Yakumo Jinja after the Meiji separation, standing as a plague-warding guardian through Narashino's military era