Shizu Shrine

What it is

• A Shikinaisha and Hitachi Province Ninomiya shrine.
• Dedicated to Takehazuchi-no-mikoto and other deities.
• Its crest is 'Maru ni Sakura' (cherry blossom in a circle).
• Designated a prefectural shrine under the modern system.

What to see

• Main hall, worship hall, and tower gate, rebuilt in Tenpo era.
• A bronze seal, designated an Important Cultural Property.
• Thirty-five painted paper scrolls of the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.
• A large drum, Jin-daiko, a Naka City cultural property.

Getting there

• 1.5km from Shizu Station on the JR Suigun Line.

Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.