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- Iimori Shrine
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092-811-1329
609, Iimori, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka City
This shrine dedicated to 3 gods as the grand shrine of old 7 municipalities in Sawara-ku. It once consisted of three different shrines, each with its own shrine status and the whole Iikura Mountain was considered a holy site. The shrine used to own a vast area around mountain. The mountain was th...
- Shikaumi Shrine
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092-603-6501
877, Shikanoshima, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka City
This shrine is dedicated to three gods of sea. The surrounding area used to belong to an ancient powerful clan who governed marine tribes. As you can read today in the poem inscribed on the stone monument on the shrine site, the shrine has long been worshipped as a guardian of the sea. The shrine...
- Hirao Sanso (Mountain Villa)
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5-2-23, Hirao, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka
Nomura Motoni(1806-1867) was a female poet of the late Edo Period from the local area and known as a dedicated supporter of anti-Tokugawa shogunate faction. This house was her second home and is now designated as an important historical site of the city. A tea hut of the time is represented and v...
- Shofu-en
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092-524-8264
3-28, Hirao, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City
Shofu-en is a park with a Japanese garden and a tea ceremony room constructed in early 1950s.
The old house named Shofu-so owned by Tanakamaru Zenpachi, the founder of Fukuoka Tamaya, once one of the major department stores in Fukuoka, was located here. The site of the house went under a renew...
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