[2025] Hatsumode Spots in Kyoto! 12 recommended shrines
The year 2022 is just around the corner. In this issue, we introduce shrines in Kyoto where you can expect to receive blessings to ward off bad luck and increase your financial fortune.
Go out to worship and make your wishes come true to make the New Year a better year.
Yasui Konpira-gu Shrine is famous throughout Japan as a shrine for severing bad relationships and bringing good ones together. The giant stone "Enkiri Enmusubi Monument (Ishi)" in front of the awarding ceremony place has a hole in the center, and it is said that if you hold a substitute for yourself and pray while passing through the monument from front to back and back to front again, your wish will be fulfilled.
The golden torii gate facing Nishinotoin Dori gives a sense of power to this shrine, which is unique in Japan in that it enshrines metal objects. Those who wish to increase their financial fortune should definitely get a lucky charm. Omikuji (omikuji fortune) with a rare "dai dai kichi" (great fortune) is also popular. The shrine's sacred ginkgo tree, which is over 200 years old, is also worth seeing.
Located near the Trolley Arashiyama Station, the only shrine in Japan dedicated to "hair" (ogami jinja) is tucked away by Ogura Pond. Visitors to the shrine include people aiming to pass the national barber and beautician examinations, working stylists seeking to improve their skills, and people with hair problems. Regardless of gender, people are encouraged to pray with all their hearts to keep their hair healthy forever.
The shrine is dedicated to Prince Seimei Abe, an astronomer and founder of the unique Yin-Yang path. Since his lifetime, Lord Abe no Seimei was widely trusted by emperors, aristocrats, and common people alike to remove their troubles and sufferings, and the shrine is known as a shrine for "warding off evil spirits" and "banishing evil spirits," and is revered by people of all ages.
The deity is Tamayorihime-no-Mikoto, who is revered as the god of beauty because of her beautiful, ball-like appearance. This ema is a mirror ema modeled after an ancient Japanese patterned mirror, and visitors can use their own cosmetics or loaner colored pencils to apply makeup to the ema's face while making a wish. After dedicating the ema, it is recommended to have a cup of Karin Bijinsui (beautiful water) for 430 yen at the teahouse in the precincts of the shrine.
It was founded in 701 by Hata-no-Imikitori at the order of Emperor Monmu. Since the Hata clan had many skilled sake brewers, the shrine came to be worshipped as "the first sake brewing god in Japan" around the end of the Muromachi period (1336-1573). There is a "Sake Museum" in the precincts of the shrine, where visitors can learn about the relationship with sake, its history and culture, and the sake brewing process in an easy-to-understand manner.
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