English Reading: Aqua City Odaiba Jinja
English Translation: Aqua City Pedestal Place Shrine
Size: Tiny
Deity: Amaterasu?
Fox Count: 3
First Visit: 18-Mar-2018
Location: Tokyo-Koto
Coordinates: 35.6279686,139.7737794
This is an unusual shrine. Wanna buy something?
By this time, I had adopted the practice of googling Shrines in advance and then go looking for them. Yet despite having marked this one down on my map, it should take me quite some time to find it. The reason for this is simple: Unlike all the Shrines I visited before, this one is not by the roadside, but on the rooftop of the Odaiba Aqua City shopping mall. You get there by escalator, and pass through a Torii before going up the final escalator. This is actually kinda cool and nicely depicts how well-integrated Japanese religion is with its modern society.
If I read the plaque next to the shrine correctly, this one is dedicated to Amaterasu, the sun goddess, which makes this the first fox shrine that is definitely probably not an Inari Shrine. Also, we have another vixen to the right (again, the pictures above are left-right swapped for better visual effect), bringing the the vixen side count to 0:5. I see a certain trend emerging here.
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