An uninhabited shrine in a snowy country!!

#Snowscape2024 Keta Wakamiya Shrine, overlooking the downtown area of ​​Furukawa-cho, is a shrine whose parishioners include the entire downtown area and is widely revered by the public as a special shrine. The Furukawa Festival (held every April 19th and 20th), registered as an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO, is the annual festival of this shrine. When you reach the top of the stone steps of the approach to the shrine, there is a giant tree to the left of the front worship hall. This is the sacred tree, a large sawtooth oak tree, the top of which was broken off due to a lightning strike in the Meiji era. Address 1297 Kamiketa, Furukawa-cho, Hida-shi, Gifu Prefecture Access 14 minutes walk from JR Hida-Furukawa Station