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A mountain sanctuary at 1,100 meters in primeval beech forest, venerated as a Nikko Shugendo training ground
Take bus from Tobu Shin-Kanuma Station then walk
Kusaku, Kanuma, Tochigi
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An ancient mountain worship shrine on the Furuminegehara plateau in Kanuma City, enshrining Oyamatsumi-no-Mikoto. Located on a plateau at approximately 1,100m elevation, surrounded by primeval beech and oak forest, it has been a mysterious sacred site visited by ascetics and mountain worshippers since ancient times. Together with Furumine Jinja it forms the Furuminegehara sacred precinct, deeply c…
The founding date of Kasosan Jinja is unknown, but the Furuminegehara plateau is traditionally held to have been venerated as a sacred site of mountain worship since ancient times. The enshrined deity, Oyamatsumi-no-Mikoto, is widely revered across Japan as a god of mountains and water, and the shri…
Victory in contests, sports, and critical challenges. Rooted in warrior-deity shrines such as Hachiman and Suwa.
Derived from the enshrined deity "大山祇命"
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