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The 64th Shikoku pilgrimage temple at the foot of Mt. Ishizuchi, where En no Gyoja built a hermitage around 685 and which served as the sacred Buddhist temple of Ishizuchi Shrine

The 63rd Shikoku pilgrimage site and the only one enshrining Bishamonten as principal deity, founded by Kobo Daishi at Emperor Saga's behest — a site of fortune and victory

The 62nd Shikoku pilgrimage temple, formerly the head Buddhist temple of Isono Shrine (Iyo's first-rank provincial shrine), still preserving vestiges of syncretic worship after the Meiji separation

The 60th Shikoku pilgrimage temple at 750m in the shadow of Mt. Ishizuchi, a challenging mountain site where Kobo Daishi practiced star offerings, sacred to Ishizuchi mountain worship

The 61st Shikoku pilgrimage temple famed as the 'Temple of Safe Childbirth,' where Kobo Daishi practiced rites for child rearing, housed in a distinctive concrete cathedral

The chief tutelary shrine of the Saijo domain enshrining Emperor Jimmu, central to the Saijo Festival's spectacular midnight danjiri procession into the river

The head shrine of Ishizuchi mountain worship with western Japan's highest peak (1,982m) as its sacred body, opened by En no Gyoja as a center of Shugendo asceticism

An ancient Iyo shrine listed in the Engishiki, co-hosting the Saijo Festival — one of Shikoku's largest autumn celebrations where dozens of danjiri floats compete to enter the shrine

About 3,000 artesian wells gushing naturally throughout Saijo City from Mt. Ishizuchi's aquifer, listed among Japan's Top 100 Famous Waters