二葉の里歴史の散歩道

This walking-path guide to the Futaba no Sato history trail in Hiroshima follows the more than one hundred twenty vermilion torii gates and roughly five hundred stone steps climbing Mount Futaba to Kinko Inari Shrine, founded in the Genroku era. It traces how this small subsidiary shrine, tucked above the larger Hiroshima Toshogu, keeps its own steep climb and its own monthly pilgrims chasing luck for business and household. You will hear about Ukanomitama, the guardian deity of rice and grain awaiting at the summit, and why a rice god ended up watching over a city built on a river delta with no farmland of its own.