"Atsuta Shrine" Top 5 Page for this destination Shrines & Temples Tip by taigaa001

1900-year-old shrine with lush evergreen forest is best known by one of the three Imperial Regalia, Kusanagi sword. The shrine saw the modification after the Meiji Restoration. It is a nice place to stroll and very much like the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. To be more precise, the forest of Meiji Shrine is much younger than that of Atsuta Shrine which is more than five hundred years old in average. The shrine preccinct has a number of historical sites but I could not cover much of the places because it was a hot day and even with shade I didn't feel like staying this place much longer.

I could easily locate one of the three best traditional walls in Japan, Nobunaga-bei Wall(photo #5). It is at this shrine Nobunaga Oda prayed for the victory of the war against one of the strongest warlord based in Sumpu(currently Shizuoka). Nobunaga won the battle of Okehazama in 1560 beheading the adversary lord, Yoshimoto Imagawa. To express gratitude, Nobunaga constructed the walls for the shrine.

Its treasure museum has a lot of cultural properties including those of Japanese swords. Also you may be able to see donated artworks by some of the finest Japanese painters. I saw the names like Kiyotaka Kaburaki or Gyokudo Kawai.