Kitano Tenmangū is a Shinto shrine in Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan.
The honden, or main building.
Two women praying in front of the chishusha (地主社)
Lanterns hang from the eaves of the main buildings.
A maiko serving tea at the plum blossom festival.
A Shinto shrine is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more kami, the deities of the Shinto religion.
Two women praying in front of a shrine
Mount Nantai, worshiped at Futarasan Shrine, has the shape of the phallic stone rods found in pre-agricultural Jōmon sites.
An example of jingū-ji: Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū-ji in an old drawing. In the foreground the shrine-temple's Buddhist structures (not extant), among them a pagoda, a belltower and a niōmon. The shrine (extant) is above.
Mount Fuji is Japan's most famous shintai.