Ashikaga Orihime Shrine (Mt. Hatakamiyama)
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Founded by the Ashikaga domain in 1705 as guardian of textile craft — famous for the 229-step 'Matchmaking Slope' approach and a night panorama certified as Japan Night View Heritage
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1705
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30 min walk from JR Ashikaga Station
3889 Nishinomiya-cho, Ashikaga, Tochigi
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Shrine
Founded 1705
321 years
Enshrined Deity
天御鉾命
天八千々姫命
Overview
Orihime Shrine on Mount Hatakamiyama in Ashikaga is famous as a deity of industrial promotion and romantic matchmaking.
Enshrining Ame-no-Mihoko and Ame-no-Yachichihime, it watches over Ashikaga's textile industry as weaving guardian deities.
The vermillion shrine on a hilltop overlooking Ashikaga offers panoramic views of the Kanto Plain.
The 229-step approach is called Enmusubi-zaka (Matchmaking…
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Origins
Orihime Shrine was founded in 1705, invited by the Ashikaga domain lord as a guardian of the textile industry.
Ashikaga has been known since ancient times as a textile-producing area, with Ashikaga Meisen nationally famous.
To pray for textile industry prosperity, the two deities were enshrined on M…
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