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. 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)..

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