Tenkai Inari Shrine — Attraction in Dazaifu

If you want to have a less stair-intensive climb, you can follow Google maps and go up the path beside the amusement park entrance instead. It is a more leisurely climb.

The shrine itself was a nice small area (no photo of the shrine, sorry!) I think it gives off a feeling of reward for the people who made the climb up from Tenmangu.

The one thing that really perplexed me was why an amusement park was right beside a holy place. It was blaring music that pierced through the forest all the way up to the shrine. It is impossible to experience tranquility.

Although I suppose it is a test of inner peace, if you are able to focus inwards and zone out the...

There's a lot more to watch than I thought. Delicious restaurants, various souvenir shops, bakery and umbrella shops. When you go to a Japanese shrine, young women wear traditional clothes and sell items for wishes. There are a lot of really huge trees planted behind the shrine. In the middle of January every year, many Japanese parents come to visit and pray to God to help their children study well. You have to wait a long time to park. There are so many people. There is a golden calf in front of the Japanese shrine, and it is believed that touching certain areas of the calf restores...

Nice quiet place. Love the atmosphere. You need to climb a lot of stairs/slopes. Try not to pick a rainy day to go because the path could be very slippery. You can go up there by two different routes. One is mainly made of muddy wood stairs and slopes, while another one is made of stones which you might find...