SO MANY INARI in JAPAN!! (Like in Ghost of Tsushima)

On our most recent trip to Japan in the winter of 2023, we gave ourselves an interesting side quest…
Alongside visiting the breathtaking sights of winter in northern Japan, the festivals, the snow, the onsen, we decided to track and find as many Inari shrines as we could.
We may have been playing a bit too much Ghost of Tsushima when we dreamed up this idea, but that doesn’t make the side quest any less valid!!
For those of you non video game nerds out there, in Ghost of Tsushima, amongst one of the many things you are tasked with finding are Inari shrines. Inari are mischievous spirits that look an awful lot like red foxes. These shrines are found throughout the game in a wide variety of settings, and you find these Inari shrines by following adorable red foxes through the woods, coasts and mountains of digital Japan. Once you find the shrines you can pet the foxes and rub their little tummies.
In the real Japan you will also find a lot of Inari shrines, distinguishable by their orange torii gates and fox-like statues, the most famous of which is arguably Fushimi Inari in Kyoto. Before our trip to Northern Japan I searched for Inari shrines on google maps and pinned as many as I could find near the cities we would be visiting. We were able to find quite a few of these shrines and visit them…. Also, I was blessed with the appearance of an actual Inari deep in the wintery woodlands of Sapporo!!!
In total we visited seven Inari Shrines in Japan during our two week stay…. cont’d at : https://bumblingtourist.com/

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