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  • Otoyo Shrine

  • The sub-shrines have animal statues of mice, monkey, and kite.
  • 1 Miyanomae-cho Shishigatani Sakyo-ku
  • City Bus : Higashitennocho -walk 10 min
    TEL / 075-771-1351
Otoyo jinja

Otoyo Shrine is considered a guardian shrine for the local people of the Shishigatani area.
The sub-shrines have animal statues of mice, monkey, and kite.
Those animals are god's messengers respectively.
The hydrangea in the approach to a shrine is beautiful in June.
This shrine has also various symbolic trees.
They are camellia and weeping plums or wild flowers.


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