Iwasaku Shrine

a place where you can feel the spiritual aura

Original Text

It is located in the forest behind the Niarayama Shrine Shinbashi, a popular tourist spot in Nikko. There is a slope leading to the Nikko Kanaya Hotel in front of the Shinbashi bridge hanging from the Nikko Kaido to the Otani River, and as soon as you go up that slope, you can see the shrine shrine. At the entrance, there was a notation called Nikko's oldest shrine. It's a very small vermilion shrine that you usually pass through, but when it becomes the oldest shrine in the sacred Nikko land, I wanted to see it at a glance. Always crowded day ...

A small shrine

Original Text

The Nikko Kanaya Hotel is at the end of the slope on the left side of the statue of Taisuke Itagaki, but immediately after going up the slope, there was a bill on the left side and I caught my eye. When I went up the stone steps of about 10 steps, I saw a small torii gate, vermilion shrine, There were old tombstones lined up on both sides of the shrine.

It is a small shrine, but it opens the sacred place by the announcement of Prince Meisei and the defense of Fukasa Daio

Original Text

After seeing the statue of Taisuke Itagaki, there is a small red shrine on the way to the Nikko Kanaya Hotel, and when you dive through the torii gate, you will see the bill, "When the founder of Nikko San was 7 years old, he was in his dream. I heard the announcement of Nikko Kaisan U. This shrine enshrined the Myojo Tenshi. The deity was renamed Iwarikami (Prince Myojo) by the Meiji era ordinance for the separation of Shinto and Buddhism. Nearby is a stone sesame altar for training at the peak of Nikko Shugen called "Hoshi no Yado". " According to the ancient record, the message of Prince Meisei and the king of Fukasa ...

Small shrine ～ Iwasaku Jinja Shrine

Original Text

It is said to be the oldest shrine in Mt. Nikko, which is said to have been built in 809 by Shodo Shonin of Mt. Nikko, who opened Mt. Nikko. It is a small shrine that is protected by a small torii gate in the middle of the slope of Kanaya Hotel. According to the explanation board in front of the shrine, Nara ～ Muromachi was respected as one of the sacred places for ascetic ascetics and as a place for reverence of busho (Japanese military commanders) during the Sengoku period. The history of the reconstruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate with the construction of Tosho Gu shrine after the temporary decline and the reconstruction of the Tosho Gu shrine was ...