Kasama Inari Shrine

Chrysanthemum festival was truly amazing. Colors and smell of the flowers are really nice. During the festival period there are lot of event are being held, worth watching if you are interested in Japanese culture.
While enjoying the chrysanthemum you can taste Japanese street foods because there are so many small restaurants and Souvenir shops are there around the shrine.
Parking your vehicle is not a big problem too, so many car parking are available for just around ¥500 per day.

I visited during Kiku-matsuri (chrysanthemum festival) in November.
It was way more beautiful than I expected.

Amazing Inari Shrine. Large and famous shrine in Ibaraki. Bicycle parking available. Lots of explanations in English. Crowded even on a weekday. Toilets available. Definitely worth a visit. This place is super crowded durning New Years holiday.

A peaceful shrine with two 400 year old Fuji (wisteria) trees. Famous shrine events include yabusame (horse archery), inari sushi and kiku festival in autumn. The town is full of quaint little pottery shops with traditional kasamaware (kasama yaki). After visiting the shrine in spring, people can also enjoy Himatsuri (pottery festival) at the Geijutsunomori Park and azalea (tsutsuji) festival at the kasama azalea park. Highly recommended!

This shrine is one of the three biggest INARI shrines in Japan. The god is a god of agriculture and foxes are messanger of this god.
The shrine itself is instagenic.

Lovely and serene place. Many many fox figurines. The inari sushi was supposed to be fantastic but we were too late to taste it. Another reason to explore this place again.

Flower festival until 26 Nov 2023

We visited this place while it was chrysanthemum festival. Despite the large number of people, you can freely move around. The street just outside the entryway resembles a window into the past and old Japan.

They have beautiful wisteria (was in full bloom during golden week holidays)

Extremely remote but really cute little shrine.

We were lucky to visit on a special celebration day, drumming lion dancers, little girls doing a fan dance, it was wonderful ❤

One of Japan Three Great Inari shrines

A place you must see before the festival ends, flowers everywhere!!!

One of the three great inari shrines of Japan. A really nice shrine, we went in the pouring rain so was very quiet, but still really nice!

Fun park with free ride, trampoline mound and lots of space for kids to run around.

My good luck at temple in Japan.

A bit of a walk from the train station. Has a lot of shops to buy food, drinks and souvenirs.

Flower festival, don't miss it.

Good!

本殿が国指定重要文化財に登録されている日本三大稲荷神社の一つ。

境内は広くて比較的歩きやすいと思います。

お土産屋や屋台など数多くあるのでお土産や飲食には困らないですね。

どこも造りが厳かな雰囲気が漂っていて、歴史を感じられます。

そびえ立つ龍のような胡桃の木もあり、かつてここら一帯は胡桃の木でいっぱいだったらしいです。

それもあり別名「胡桃下稲荷神社」とも言われているそうです。

行事は月に数回程度行っているので、年に何回参拝しても飽きがこないですね。

七五三や祈祷などももちろんできます。

近隣には飲食店やお土産店などで連なっているので、車で通る際は注意が必要です。