English Reading: Senkou Inari Jinja
English Translation: Ship Light Inari Shrine
Size: Small
Deity: Inari
Fox Count: 3
First Visit: 14-Feb-2018
Location: Tokyo-Minato
Coordinates: 35.6667854, 139.7171478
A small Inari shrine that I found following a job interview near Aoyama (青山 "Blue Mountain"). In Google, this Shrine is transcribed as "Funeko Inaka Shrine", which certainly is one way of reading those Kanji, but with my experience from travelling around Japan, I believe my above transcription is much more likely. Some shrines explicitly settle that manner by providing a plaque where the shrine's name is also written in Furigana, which are little hiragana characters that explicitly specify the reading. However, I should only realize that later on, and I don't think this little shrine had such a plaque anyways.
Also, little shrines like these sometimes have issues with precise addresses, so I am providing coordinates for shrines where the address is not precise. Japanese addresses are, in fact, quite confounding: Instead of street names with ascending numbers, they divide their districts into blocks known as "Chome", and then number the buildings inside them. For this shrine, Google states the address as "3 Chome-4 Minamiaoyama, Minato City, Tokyo 107-0062", which unfortunately is not a precise address. What a precise address looks like differs in different parts of Japan, but if you look back to my previous posts, you will see that in Tokyo, the "Chome" is followed by two numbers, and not just one.
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