Kego Shrine
Urban shrine amid shopping streets, home to grinning stone foxes and a charm pun called okatamari.
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Kego Shrine's guide, tucked among Fukuoka's shopping streets, centers on a stone fox beside the Imamasu Inari shrine with a single visible tooth and a snout worn smooth by generations of visitors touching it for luck. It traces the local legend behind that smile, involving a tofu seller named Sobei and a passing samurai, and unpacks the shrine's charm counter, sold under a punning name tied to Kego's history as an old guard post on the road to Dazaifu.
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