A Walk in Kosuge Village

Known as one of the top three spots in Japan for practitioners of the Buddhist mystical sect Shugendo, the pathway to the inner shrine is lined with towering Japanese ceders, said to be 300 years old, and large moss covered boulders.
Hike about an hour up the path from Satomiya shrine (shrine built in village area as a worship space) to find the inner shrine, perched on a cliff 900 meters in elevation.
The inner shrine was constructed during the mid-Muromachi Period (1338 – 1573), and designated an important cultural property in 1964.