Sapporo Fushimi Inari Shrine

This guide to Sapporo Fushimi Inari Shrine follows twenty-seven vermilion torii gates up the foot of Mount Moiwa and back to eighteen eighty-four, when a former Sapporo Shrine official carried a division of the Inari spirit north from Kyoto. It traces the shrine's restless early years, moving between sites in south Sapporo and Kotoni village before settling here, and touches on Inari's fox messenger and the worshippers who donated each gate. Stand under any gate and look up at how the mountain holds the frost against the lacquer.