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Power Spot Course: Want To Improve Your Luck?! Try Praying at These Shrines
Power Spot Course: Want To Improve Your Luck?! Try Praying at These Shrines
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Stone cows are located within the temple grounds. It is said that any afflicted area of the body can be cured by rubbing the corresponding part of the cow. Many people visit the shrine to pray for passing examinations.
It is said that you cannot walk in Nagoya without running into a shrine or temple. Did you know that Aichi Prefecture has the most shrines and temples of any prefecture in Japan? And all of these shrines bestow good luck on their visitors. Youll have more good fortune then you can handle!
Nearest Station: Subway Meijo Line Ozone Station, Exit 5
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10-min. walk Ozone Station, Exit 5 Subway Meijo Line 3-min. Sunadabashi Station, Exit 1 12-min. walk
Kogane Shrine is famous as a shrine where washing your money will increase monetary luck. The adjacent Yamada Tenmangu Shrine is famous for a stone cow which answers prayers for passing examinations.
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It is said that the esoteric cosmetologist Abe-no-Seimei lived in this area during the later part of his life. Seimei fortune telling performed through incantations is a popular way to improve your luck in romance.
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2 Seimei Shrine 12-min. walk 3 Ueno Tenmangu Shrine 20-min. walk 4 Shiroyama Hachimangu Shrine
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6min. walk Chikusa Station, Exit 4 Subway Higashiyama Line 1-min Imaike Station (transfer to Sakura-dori Line) SubwaySakura-dori Line 6-min. Hisaya-odori Station, Exit 4 6min. walk 6min. walk Hisaya-odori Station, Exit 4 Subway Meijo Line 12-min. Jingu Nishi Station, Exit 2 5min. walk 5min. walk Jingu Nishi Station, Exit 2 Subway Meijo Line 8-min. Kamimaezu Station (transfer to Tsurumai Line) Subway Tsurumai Line 4-min. Arahata Station, Exit 4 10min. walk Goal
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6 Sakuratenjin Shrine
Famous for a stone statue known as the Sakura-dori Sakura-dori Otsu Wishing Water Cow. It is said that your Honmachi ri Line Subway Sakura-do wishes will come true if you use a ladle to pour water on the cow. In order for your 4 wish to be granted, the number of times Hisaya-odori that you pour water should equal your age. Station
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The trunk of the sacred Marital Tree splits into two and then grows together again. The tree is worshipped as a symbol of happy marriage and restoration of relationships.
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Total travel distance: approx. 30.4 km(including subway 21.7 km) Atsuta Shrine is also introduced in Chapter 3 and Chapter 8.
Total travel distance provided is just for reference.
The most well-known shrine in Aichi Prefecture, Atsuta Shrine 10min. walk houses the Kusanagi-no-Mitsurugi Atsuta Nearest Station: Subway Tsurumai Line Arahata Station, Exit 4 sword which is one of the three Hataya-cho Ward Office Total travel time: approx. 147 min. including subway 39 min.) imperial regalia of Japan. Jingu Nishi Station
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The temple grounds contain the God Stone, a large boulder which is known as the god of long life. It is said that Tokugawa Ieyasu prayed to this stone for victory in the Battle of Nagakute.
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