Niutsuhime Jinja Shrine

Situated among the rolling, serene rural countryside of Amano basin, likened by essayist Masako Shirasu to the Plain of High Heaven where deities reside, this shrine boasts more than 1,700 years of history. The deity of Mt. Koya is said to be capable of preventing all manner of calamity, and to have conferred the mountain upon Kobo Daishi, a famous Buddhist monk, and as such is worshipped far and wide. In 2004, the shrine was inscribed, along with Mt. Koya, Kumano and the Yoshino area, as a World Heritage site, namely the Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range.

【Fee】Free to walk around the shrine precinct
【Access】Public transport: Approx. 30 min. on the Katsuragi Town Community Bus toward Niutsuhime Jinja from JR Kaseda Station, and a short walk from the final stop; approx. 1 hour on the Koyasan & Kumano Access Bus from JR Hashimoto Station, and a short walk from the Niutsuhime-jinja-mae bus stop (in operation on weekends and public holidays from the middle of September to November)
　By car: Approx. 20 min. (12 km) along Prefectural Route 4 from Kihoku-Katsuragi IC on the Keinawa Expressway
【Credit Card Payment 】Not accepted
【Foreign Language Support】English-language leaflets
【Parking】Yes (50 spaces)