Kyoto's Fushimi Inari

I got the chance to travel to Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto. Inari is the Shinto god of rice. This would have been a great picture of the entrance building had that maintenance truck not been there.

Here is a stone lantern and an orange fence that is outside the shrine.



Inside the shrine there was this good luck ring.


At the beginning of the long series of gates is this building here.


Many gates seem to be sponsored by businesses. The two characters on these gates are there to prompt donations.

Wolves are supposed to be the messenger of Inari so there were a couple statues here and there.

Here are some more gates.

Here is a shot from inside the gates.

I was able to get two trees into this shot.

Here is a map of the whole shrine.

I didn't travel through all of the gates because they seem to go on for kilometers. Here are some gates near water. I took this picture from a hole where a missing pillar was.

Those gates led to a small lake and what seemed to be a cemetery.

Here is a wide shot of the lake.

There were also these purple flowers.

Here is a Shinto statue.

Here is another one with a gong.

Here is a statue of Amida who I learned cares for infants. She is holding one there.

Here is a good shot of Kyoto I took before leaving.