Sapporo Fushimi Inari Shrine
Vermilion torii gates climbing a forested mountainside, framed by deep snow in winter.
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This guide to Sapporo Fushimi Inari Shrine in Sapporo begins at a stone hung with hand-written paper charms and the shrine's blunt advice for anyone making a wish. It reaches back to April 1884, when a priest named Shigeo Nomura wrote to Kyoto asking for a share of its god, and to why a young frontier city on Hokkaido wanted Inari at all. Along the way you meet the vermilion gates and a peach-shaped charm that is meant to be smashed. Best heard standing beside the wish stone.
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