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Mount Oiwa enshrining 188 deities — from late-Jomon ritual sites and the 'Hitachi Fudoki' record to Tokugawa Mitsukuni's brush-dipping rite, this entire mountain remains a sacred body and the only major shrine in Ibaraki to preserve its syncretic Buddha statues through the Meiji separation

Branch of Kashima Jingu on a hilltop overlooking the Pacific, guarding fishermen and Hitachi mine workers since the Enryaku era

Rock-face shrine where legend holds the star deity Amatsu-Mikaboshi was sealed in the sacred Shukonseki stone

Shrine with over 1300 years of history recorded in the Hitachi Fudoki, renowned for its emerald-green sacred spring

The summit upper sanctuary of Oiwa Shrine — the original 'Kabire peak' recorded in the 8th-century Hitachi Fudoki, enshrining Amaterasu, Ninigi, and Tachihaya-hiko

Tendai temple founded by a monk from Enryakuji, where fishermen of the Pacific coast pray to Yakushi Nyorai for health

Jodo nenbutsu temple opened to memorialize fishermen lost at sea, deeply tied to Hitachi's coastal community

Seaside shrine on the cliffs of Izura Coast, sacred to Okakura Tenshin's art world, enshrining the sea deity Owatatsumi

Hill shrine adjacent to Kamine Park, bustling with citizens during cherry season, known for industrial and matchmaking blessings

Built 1836 by ninth Mito daimyo Nariaki as the bakumatsu coastal-defense outpost watching for foreign ships — a hilltop castle ruin overlooking the Hitachi coast