A shrine with a spectacular view in Yamanashi City, perched on the clifftop of Sashide-iso along the Fuefuki River. The precincts offer a sweeping 360-degree panorama of the Kofu Basin, the Southern Alps, and Mt. Fuji — a power spot that has gained nationwide fame in recent years through social media. The shrine enshrines Oyamatsumi no Mikoto as a guardian of agriculture, matchmaking, and warding …

Sashide-iso Otakesan Jinja is traditionally said to have been founded around the Engi era (901–923). The site known as 'Sashide-iso,' a clifftop along the Fuefuki River, was already celebrated as a utamakura (poetic place name) by the Nara period and appears in the Man'yoshu, Japan's oldest poetry a…