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Jinja(tourism)
Jinja hotels(tourism)

jinja (sh)




In the Shinto religion, a place where a god is enshrined or to which it is summoned.

Originally rural sites of great natural beauty, jinja now include urban shrines. They vary in size from small roadside places of prayer to large building complexes such as the Grand Ise Shrine. There are more than 97,000 such shrines in Japan.