29 ~ Ooyama Inari Jinja

 

Japanese Name:  大山稲荷神社
English Reading: Ooyama Inari Jinja
English Translation: Great Mountain Inari Shrine
Size: Small
Deity: Inari
Fox Count: 2
First Visit: 22-Mar-2018
Location: Tokyo-Shibuya
Address: 2 Chome-20-8 Dōgenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tōkyō-to 150-0043

A small Inari shrine with a pair of foxes watching over it. It's amazing how many different designs the big fox statues at the entrance of shrines come in, which is most likely because they are custom-made by local masons for each shrine, so each pair is unique. I mean, sure, there's also some that are clearly mass-produced, but for the most part, if you come to a shrine with big fox statues at its gate, they are more likely to be unique than not.