Shinto shrine

Two women praying in front of a shrine

A torii is a gate that leads to a jinja. This one is in the sea near Itsukushima Shrine.

A Shinto shrine is a sacred place or site where people worship in the Shinto religion.^[1] Many Shinto shrines have buildings, gates, and natural areas such as forests and rivers around them. The usual Japanese word for a Shinto shrine is Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value)..^[2]

Etymology of Jinja from oracle bone characters

Shinto Shrine Media

Mount Nantai, worshiped at Futarasan Shrine, has the shape of the phallic stone rods found in pre-agricultural Jōmon sites.
Mount Fuji is Japan's most famous shintai.
出雲大社拝殿
Ise Grand Shrine has been the most important shrine in Japan.
Senbon torii leading to the Fushimi Inari-taisha
The Yasukuni Shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo
Hachiman in Buddhist robes due to shinbutsu-shūgō