[Sapporo Fushimi Inari Shrine] Shrine Is Well-known for Vermilion Torii Gates in Row

Sapporo Fushimi Inari Shrine

Sapporo Fushimi Inari Shrine (札幌伏見稲荷神社) is a shrine established in 1884 in Fushimi, Chuo ward, Sapporo city, and is near Moiwayama Ropeway (藻岩山ロープウェイ) and Asahiyama Memorial Park (旭山記念公園), and is well-known for vermilion torii gates in a row. In a winter, a conbinaton of white snow and the vermilion torii gates is beautiful, and a lot of overseas tourists come to enjoy the view. The shrine is also popular with Japanese as a sacred site, and worships Uganomitama -no-mikoto (倉稲魂命), Oyamatsumi-no-mikoto (大山祇命), Okuninushi-no-mikoto (大國主命), Kotoshironushi-no-mikoto (事代主命) and Ame-no-uzume-no-mikoto (天鈿女命) split from Fushimi Inari Taisha (伏見稲荷大社) in Kyoto. The Sapporo Fushimi Inari Shrine is smaller than the Fushimi Inari Taisha. The main shrine, Aramitama Shrine (荒魂社), a shrine office, Memorial Stone of Mr. Kauznori Ueda (上田一徳翁之碑), Bust of Mr. Sozaburo Ayuha (阿由葉宗三郎翁之像), Memorial Stone of Fire Protection (火防碑) and a parking lot are built at the site. Admission free. The parking lot is free of charge.

The Fushimi Inari Taisha in the Kyoto is the head inari shrine with about 30,000 inari shrine branches in Japan. Hata clan reportedly founded it in 711. When Mr. Irogu Hata (秦伊呂具) made a target of an arrow with a rice cake, and shooted the mark with an arrow, the target turned into a bird, and flew away. After the bird landed on a mountain peak, rice plants grew. So around the land was called "Inaneri (伊禰奈利)", and the name seemed to be the origin of Inari Shrine. The shrine has worshiped the gods of grain and foods, and has guarded food situation in the Japan. The Inari Shrine is famous as a fox shrine, but the god is not a fox, and messengers of the god are foxes. By the way, images of the fox were hardly seen at the Sapporo Fushimi Inari Shrine for some reasons.

Movie of Fushimi Inari Taisha

The Sapporo Fushimi Inari Shrine was choosen as a setting of Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha (いなり、こんこん恋いろは), Japanese anime, and some poeple seem to enjoy visiting the real-life locations. As for tasty restaurants near the shrine, Oniwasoto Fukuwauchi (鬼はそと福はうち), Missu House Fushimi Head Office (ミッシュハウス 伏見本店) and Hillside Terrace Fushimi Griller (ヒルサイドテラス ふしみグリエ) are popular in particular.

SAPPORO

Sapporo (札幌) that about 1,960,000 people live is the largest city in Hokkaido. Although there are various theories, its origin of the name is "Dry Big River (乾いた大きな川)" in Ainu language. A population of the Sapporo is the 4th largest city after Yokohama, Osaka and Nagoya in japan, and the population accounts for 36 % of Hokkaido's population! So the Sapporo has been flourished as the center of the Hokkaido. The area of the Sapporo is 1,121.26 km2, and is about as big as Hong Kong, and is the 7th largest city in the Hokkaido. The Sapporo is also famous as a tourist city, and about 15 million people come. As for a climate, it is hot that temperature rises to nearly 25 degrees in a summer, but it is easy to live without moisture. I always feel a little cool. It is cold that temperature falls to nearly -10 degrees in a winter, and amount of snowfall sometimes has more than 1 m. Article is here