
Moku Shrine
It is said to be the first year of the Nara period, the second year of the old (718). As you go up the gentle hill approach from the buzz of the shopping street, Satsuki, cherry blossoms and Kaede branches stretch out and add color to the precincts. The main shrine (important cultural property) of the Sankasha style left the style of the signature Shinto shrine architecture of the Muromachi period, and was considered the original form of the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. The name of the city, "Mukou", comes from the land that bathes in sunshine until the sun rises from Higashiyama and sinks into Nishiyama = "Nikou Kau". The faith of the farmers is still thick at Muko Shrine.