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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.
This is a list of notable Shinto shrines in Japan.There are tens of thousands of shrines in Japan.Shrines with structures that are National Treasures of Japan are covered by the List of National Treasures of Japan (shrines).
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]
On the fourteenth day of the fifth month of 1871, by decree of the Dajō-kan, the fundamental elements of the modern shrine system were established: a hierarchic ranking of Shinto shrines, with specification of the grades of priest who could officiate at the various levels of shrine. [4]
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.
Ujigami Shrine in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture The nagare-zukuri ( 流造 , 'flowing style') or nagare hafu-zukuri ( 流破風造 , 'flowing gabled style') is a style characterized by a very asymmetrical gabled roof ( 切妻屋根 kirizuma-yane in Japanese) projecting outwards on the non-gabled side, above the main entrance, to form a portico. [ 23 ]