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The station building, located at the base of the embankment, is a modern structure built of timber in traditional Japanese style to resemble the nearby Kirishima-Jingū Shrine. From the station building, a tunnel leads under the embankment and up a flight of steps to the island platform. [2] [3] [4]
Kirishima-Jingū (霧島神宮) is a Shinto shrine located in Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Takachiho-gawara the location of the descent from heaven is present on the shrine grounds. [1] [2] Historically, the entire of Mount Kirishima is considered part of the shrine grounds.
The following list encompasses only some, but not all of the Heian period Nijūnisha shrines (Twenty-Two Shrines); and the modern shrines which were established after the Meiji Restoration are not omitted.
Kanda Shrine; Kume no Heinai-dō; Meiji Shrine; Namiyoke Inari Shrine; Nezu Shrine; Nogi Shrine; Oji Shrine; Ōmiya Hachiman Shrine; Shōin shrine; Suiten-gū; Three Palace Sanctuaries, Kokyo Imperial Palace; Tokyo Daijingu; Tsukudo Shrine Togo Shrine; Toyokawa Inari Tokyo Yasukuni Shrine; Yushima Tenmangū; Igusa Hachimangu Ōkunitama Shrine
Metropolitan Shrine (府社) Nogi Shrine (Tokyo) Minato, Tokyo － Kanda Shrine: Chiyoda, Tokyo: Tōgō Shrine: Tokyo Shibuya － Ōmiya Hachiman Shrine (Tokyo) Suginami － Yushima Tenmangū: Bunkyō: Atago Shrine (Kyoto) Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture Ukyō-ku, Kyoto: Shikinai Shosha Osaka Tenmangū: Kita-ku, Osaka: Kōzu-gū: Chuo Ward, Osaka City ...
Jingū-Marutamachi Station (神宮丸太町駅) is a railway station on the Keihan Ōtō Line located in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The station was named after Marutamachi Street as it is located where the railway beneath Kawabata Street crosses Marutamachi Street, and Heian Shrine ( Heian Jingū ) along Marutamachi Street.
The station name was changed to Kirishima-Nishiguchi Station (霧島西口駅) on 15 January 1962 and freight operation were discontinued from September of the same year. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Kyushu.
The number of Shinto shrines in Japan today has been estimated at more than 150,000. [1] Single structure shrines are the most common. Shrine buildings might also include oratories (in front of main sanctuary), purification halls, offering halls called heiden (between honden and haiden), dance halls, stone or metal lanterns, fences or walls, torii and other structures. [2]