Afuri Jina Shrine, located on Mt. Oyama in Kanagawa Prefecture was once a popular pilgrimage destination in Japan's Edo era. It shares the mountain with Oyama Temple, and other minor temples and shrines, a cable car, and many inns (whose specialty in tofu). The mountain is beautiful, and so this is a perfect place for a one-day trip, being just an hour or so away from Shinjuku or Yokohama. There are two Afuri Jinja shrines here actually; the larger sub-shrine at the top of the cable car, and then the main but much smaller shrine at the top of the mountain.
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The Beauty of Afuri Jinja Shrine
High, high up on Mt. Oyama in Kanagawa
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![Guardian of the shrine gates](https://a1.cdn.japantravel.com/photo/10969-65349/1000/kanagawa-the-beauty-of-afuri-jinja-shrine-65349.jpg)
Guardian of the shrine gates
![Entrance to the Afuri Shrine's lower shrine](https://a1.cdn.japantravel.com/photo/10969-65350/1000/kanagawa-the-beauty-of-afuri-jinja-shrine-65350.jpg)
Entrance to the Afuri Shrine's lower shrine
![Offering up a prayer of thanks](https://a1.cdn.japantravel.com/photo/10969-65351/1000/kanagawa-the-beauty-of-afuri-jinja-shrine-65351.jpg)
Offering up a prayer of thanks
![Writing out a prayer request, and then burning it, the smoke rising to reach the God of Shintoism](https://a1.cdn.japantravel.com/photo/10969-65352/1000/kanagawa-the-beauty-of-afuri-jinja-shrine-65352.jpg)
Writing out a prayer request, and then burning it, the smoke rising to reach the God of Shintoism
![Writing out a prayer request in earnest](https://a1.cdn.japantravel.com/photo/10969-65353/1000/kanagawa-the-beauty-of-afuri-jinja-shrine-65353.jpg)
Writing out a prayer request in earnest
![Purification font with dragon](https://a1.cdn.japantravel.com/photo/10969-65354/1000/kanagawa-the-beauty-of-afuri-jinja-shrine-65354.jpg)
Purification font with dragon
![In a cave under the shrine](https://a1.cdn.japantravel.com/photo/10969-65355/1000/kanagawa-the-beauty-of-afuri-jinja-shrine-65355.jpg)
In a cave under the shrine
![Side view of Afuri Shrine](https://a1.cdn.japantravel.com/photo/10969-65356/1000/kanagawa-the-beauty-of-afuri-jinja-shrine-65356.jpg)
Side view of Afuri Shrine
![An interesting display](https://a1.cdn.japantravel.com/photo/10969-65357/1000/kanagawa-the-beauty-of-afuri-jinja-shrine-65357.jpg)
An interesting display
![Statues at the rear of the shrine](https://a1.cdn.japantravel.com/photo/10969-65358/1000/kanagawa-the-beauty-of-afuri-jinja-shrine-65358.jpg)
Statues at the rear of the shrine
![Stairs that begin the tough one-hour climb to the main shrine at the top of Mt. Oyama](https://a1.cdn.japantravel.com/photo/10969-65359/1000/kanagawa-the-beauty-of-afuri-jinja-shrine-65359.jpg)
Stairs that begin the tough one-hour climb to the main shrine at the top of Mt. Oyama
![The shrine gate in autumn](https://a1.cdn.japantravel.com/photo/10969-65360/1000/kanagawa-the-beauty-of-afuri-jinja-shrine-65360.jpg)
The shrine gate in autumn
![A view of visitors coming to the shrine](https://a1.cdn.japantravel.com/photo/10969-65361/1000/kanagawa-the-beauty-of-afuri-jinja-shrine-65361.jpg)
A view of visitors coming to the shrine
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