Place of worship
Shirakami-sha Shrine
7-24 Nakamachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, 730-0037
Shinto shrine built on an exposed sea reef that once warned ships away from old Hiroshima Bay.
This guide to Shirakami-sha Shrine in Hiroshima opens with a question: why did sailors trust a strip of paper to keep them off the rocks. It traces a jagged reef in old Hiroshima Bay, marked for centuries by fishermen before becoming a shrine, and the feudal lord Mori Terumoto's land reclamation as he built Hiroshima Castle in the 1590s. Look down at the base of the small buildings in front of you, where the original weathered stone still sits exposed.
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