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Sosha of Hitachi Province whose September festival of floats and lion dancers is counted among Kanto's three great festivals

Ancient Nara-period shrine enshrining six Hitachi deities together to serve provincial governors' ritual duties

Tendai temple founded by Jikaku Daishi Ennin in 850, celebrated for Yakushi Nyorai's healing of eye ailments

Ancient shrine wrapped in dense forest, enshrined as guardian of the Hitachi provincial capital, echoed in the place name Kanoko

Provincial Buddhist temple built by imperial edict of Emperor Shomu in 741, hub of Hitachi's state Buddhism

Nationally designated ruins of a nunnery built in 741, foundation stones conveying the Nara-period temple layout

Sacred site adjacent to a 186m keyhole burial mound, the second largest in Kanto, burial of a 5th-century chieftain

Ancient mountain shrine on Ishioka's hills facing Mount Tsukuba, recorded in the Hitachi Fudoki

Hachimangu associated with the Minamoto clan, guarding the agricultural basin of Yasato at Mount Tsukuba's eastern foothills

Ancient shrine near the Hitachi provincial capital, serving as the spiritual pillar of provincial administration in the Heian period