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The Suwa Jinja Group

諏訪神社

Sacred Tokyo 40 Shinto Shrines

The Kamata table puts the number of Suwa Jinja at 5,039, while the Suwa Taisha homepage says there are over 10,000 Suwa branch shrines around the country. There are four main shrines in the group, two to the north and two to the south of Lake Suwa in Nagano prefecture, The two to the north are Shimosha, Harumiya and Shimosha, Akimiya; the two to the south Kamisha, Honmiya and Kamisha, Maemiya.

Suwa Jinja described on this site

(listed alphabetically by location)

 

 

Nagano-ken, Shiojiri-shi

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Tokyo-to, Setagaya-ku

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