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  • Shinmei-jinja Shrine (Ishigami-san)
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    Mie Pref. Tobashi Ousatsuchou 1385
    A Shinto shrine located in Osatsu Town, famous for its ama female divers and fisherman. The small Shinto shrine located on the approach to the main shrine is locally known as “Ishigami-san.” The shrine is dedicated to the goddess Tamayori-hime. Since ancient times, ama female divers have come to the shrine to pray for safety and large catches. Due to this association, legend has it that the shrine will grant one wish to any woman who prays here. Women from all over the country come to visit the shrine. There is a shop and café housed inside a remodeled private home along the approach to the shrine which sells handmade tokoroten jelly noodles and souvenirs.
    Shinmei-jinja Shrine (Ishigami-san) image
  • Shima-no-kuni Ichinomiya Isawa-jinja Shrine
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    Mie Toba Arashimacho 1020
    Listed as one of the grand shrines in the Heian period Engi-shiki registry, this Shinto shrine is also known as “Kaburako Daimyojin” and “Shima Daimyojin.” Once the highest ranking shrine of Shima Province, this renowned shrine is still visited by great numbers of worshippers today. Dedicated to the Three Goddesses of Toba, the shrine is believed to grant luck in finding love and marriage.
    Shima-no-kuni Ichinomiya Isawa-jinja Shrine image
  • Hikotaki Daimyojin Shrine
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    Mie Pref. Tobashi Kouchichou
    This Shinto shrine’s principal object of worship is a figure of a white snack considered one of the Three Goddesses of Toba. The Shrine is popularly known as “Hikotaki-san.” A lovely river flows alongside the approach to the shrine and continues on into its grounds. Past the torii gate lie the upper reaches of the clear stream, and an elegant sacred rope hangs over its waters. The shrine is believed to grant benefits such as alleviating women’s ailments and safe childbirth.
    Hikotaki Daimyojin Shrine image
  • Hachiman-jinja Shrine
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    Mie Prefecture Toba City
    Hachiman-jinja Shrine is located at the entrance of Toshi Fishing Port. Hachiman Festival held over three days from January 17th to 19th on the Lunar calendar is the largest festival in Toshi Town. Various local groups show dances and performances such as archery rituals and amateur local performances. At the entrance connected with the vermilion-colored Hachiman Bridge, a monument with a poem written about Toshi Island by Kakinomoto Hitomaro has been built. You can see that it has been recognized as an island with abundant seafood and scenic beauty since that time.
    Hachiman-jinja Shrine image
  • Ichibe-jinja Shrine
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    Mie Pref. Tobashi Arashimachou 1075-113 Maritame in the Sky in Maritime Haiyuen
    This shrine is located in the courtyard of the Hotel Maritime in Toba City, Mie Prefecture. According to legend, it was built when a local fisherman encountered trouble at sea in 1828. He was saved by a dragon that swooped down and left him on the boulder where the shrine now stands. Honoring a god of victory or defeat, it's often visited by athletes, politicians, and celebrities who consider it a place to draw spiritual energy. The hotel's front desk sells amulets and slips of paper for making wishes and it's said that the faster your paper dissolves in the shrine's sacred water, the sooner your wish will come true.
    Ichibe-jinja Shrine image
  • Ura-jinja Shrine
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    Mie Pref. Tobashi Uramurachou 148
    This shrine in Toba City, Mie Prefecture is famous for the boon of being beneficial to the eyes and is known locally as Ura-no-Gongen-San. It's primary object of worship is a stone outcrop that's over 99 feet high, and a variety of impressively large trees grow in the shrine's environs. Many come here to visit the Eyewash Spring which flows by the small shrine to the left of the main sanctuary. From ages past legend has said that drinking from it will improve eye ailments. The sanctuary enshrines Azumiwake-no-Mikoto, a local guardian deity who was believed to improve women's milk production in times of little food.
    Ura-jinja Shrine image
  • Isawa-jinja Shrine
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    Mie Toba Arashimacho 1020
    Isawa-jinja Shrine image
  • Yatsushiro Shrine
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    Mie Toba Kamishimacho 1
    "This Shinto shrine is located in Kamijima-cho, Toba City on the outlying island of Kamishima, famously used as a setting in Yukio Mishima's novel ""The Sound of Waves."" Just when the shrine was founded is not clear. The shrine stands at the top of over 200 stone steps. A portion of the shrine's treasures are registered as National Important Cultural Properties as the Ise Kamishima Festival Relics. The Geh-tah Matsuri, a distinctly unusual festival, is held at the shrine on New Year's Day."
    Yatsushiro Shrine image
  • Sanuki Kotohira-gu Toba Bunsha
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    Mie Toba Toba 2-12-20
    This Shinto shrine is located in 2-Chome Toba, Toba City. One of the branch shrines of Kotohira-gu Shrine in Kagawa Prefecture, the shrine stands near the top of Mt. Hinoyama. Dedicated to Omononushi-no-Kami and Emperor Sutoku, the shrine is a shrine of maritime safety. Visitors can also enjoy a view of Toba Bay from the shrine's grounds.
    Sanuki Kotohira-gu Toba Bunsha image
  • Mitarashi Shrine
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    Mie Toba Toshicho 984
    "This Shinto shrine is located in Toshi-cho, Toba City. It is said that if a married couple visits the shrine and makes an offering of a pair of abalone, they will be blessed with a child with beautiful eyes. A beech tree grows on the grounds in a shape resembling the head of a dragon, and locals call it ""Ryujin-san"" (""Dragon God"")."
    Mitarashi Shrine image
  • Akasaki Shrine
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    Mie Toba Toba 4-chome
  • Shirataki Daimyojin
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    Mie Toba Funatsucho 644
  • Kata Shrine
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    Mie Toba Toba 2-9-1
  • Kamo Shrine
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    Mie Toba Matsuocho 753
  • Katakami Shrine
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    Mie Toba Katakamicho 787
  • Ijika Shrine
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    Mie Toba Ijika Cho 261
  • Suga Shima Shrine
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    Mie Toba Sugashimacho 1
  • Wakamiya Shrine
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    Mie Toba Sakatecho 136
  • Oyamazumi Shrine
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    Mie Toba Toba 3-4-15
  • Tsuchinomiya Shrine
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    Mie Toba Ohamacho 33
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Spread across the eastern side of the Kii Peninsula, Mie prefecture boasts hundreds of kilometers of pretty coastline comprising the oyster-rich Toba city and Shima National Park all the way down to Kumano, a city that marks the beginning of part of the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage, which runs into neighboring Wakayama prefecture. However, Mie is best known for the Ise Jingu Shinto shrine inland, one of the oldest and largest shrines in the country.

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