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Ashikaga Orihime Shrine (Mt. Hatakamiyama)
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
創建
1705
種別
神社
Access
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
概要
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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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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