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Visit the shrine

A 3D Japanese shrine you walk in your browser

Visit a shrine anytime, from anywhere, as anyone.

Bow at the torii, cleanse your hands, pray at the hall, draw a fortune and hang your wish. Nothing to install, free, on a phone or a computer.

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  1. 春Cherry blossomNow
  2. 夏Green leavesNow
  3. 秋Autumn coloursNow
  4. 冬SnowNow

The seasons of the grounds follow the calendar in Japan. A made-up shrine, built and visited the way real ones are.

How a visit goes

Every step is shown to you on the spot, so you need not know the manners beforehand. Trace the gestures on the screen and perform the visit with your own hands.

  1. Torii
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    Torii

    Bow once, then walk along the edge of the path.

  2. Temizu
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    Temizu

    With the ladle, rinse the left hand, the right hand, then the mouth.

  3. Haiden
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    Haiden

    Toss a coin, ring the bell: two bows, two claps, one bow.

  4. Omikuji
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    Omikuji

    Shake the box for a slip, read its poem and its words, and tie it before you leave.

  5. Ema
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    Ema

    Write your wish with a brush or by typing, and hang it where you like.

Wide grounds

A long approach, a pond with a drum bridge, a two-storey gate and a cloistered court, the kagura stage, the hall up the stone steps, the Inari shrine through a tunnel of torii, the Tenjin shrine among plum trees, and a fair with stalls. A walk round takes over ten minutes.

The first torii and the approach
The first torii and the approach
The pond and its island
The pond and its island
The two-storey gate
The two-storey gate
The court and the kagura stage
The court and the kagura stage
A thousand torii
A thousand torii
The Tenjin shrine
The Tenjin shrine
The tea house
The tea house
The hall in winter
The hall in winter

From morning to night

The shrine keeps the time it is in Japan now: the glow of dawn, the light of noon, dusk, and night with the lanterns lit. You can also choose an hour to walk in. After dark the fire watch makes his rounds with a lantern.

The pictures below are of one summer day; sunrise and sunset move with the seasons.

Now in Japan

The shrine's year

From the lion dance of the New Year to the portable shrine of summer, the yokai parade of autumn and the great purification on New Year's Eve. Come on the day and the festival is on. Kagura is danced every day, and the monthly rite falls on the 1st and the 15th.

  1. January

    • Hatsumōde, the first visit of the year
    • Shishi-mai, the New Year lion dance
    • The 108th strike of the New Year's bell
    • Full-moon viewing
    • Dondo-yaki

  2. February

    • Hatsu-uma at the Inari shrine
    • Full-moon viewing
    • Setsubun bean-throwing
    • Mantōrō, the night of ten thousand lanterns
    • Kinen-sai, prayer for the harvest

  3. March

    • Full-moon viewing
    • Hina-nagashi

  4. April

    • Full-moon viewing

  5. May

    • Full-moon viewing
    • Boys' Day

  6. June

    • Full-moon viewing
    • Summer purification: the chinowa ring

  7. July

    • Tanabata
    • Full-moon viewing
    • Summer festival and mikoshi

  8. August

    • Bon-odori
    • Mantōrō, the night of ten thousand lanterns
    • Full-moon viewing

  9. September

    • Moon-viewing festival
    • Full-moon viewing

  10. October

    • Autumn grand festival
    • Hyakki Yagyō, the night parade of yōkai
    • Full-moon viewing

  11. November

    • Shichi-go-san
    • Tori-no-ichi rake fair
    • Niiname-sai, the new rice
    • Full-moon viewing

  12. December

    • Susuharai, the year-end dusting
    • Full-moon viewing
    • The New Year's Eve bell (joya no kane)
    • Year-end purification and the night rite

Every festival, with its days and hours

Bon dance
Bon dance
Ten thousand lanterns
Ten thousand lanterns
First visit of the year
First visit of the year

The people of the grounds

Speak to someone on the approach and they stop and talk with you, in their own voice. At the shrine office the gūji and the miko answer what you ask about the manners or the meaning of your fortune. A miko keeps the amulet counter, sellers keep the fair, and at night the fire watch goes round.

The answers of the gūji and the miko are written by AI. What you ask is not kept.

A word on the approach
A word on the approach
Asking the gūji
Asking the gūji

Small pleasures

Rest on a bench. Feed the koi and the pigeons. Stroke the cat. Lift the omokaru stone. Sweep the leaves. Throw a coin into the pond from the drum bridge. What you do is kept in your notebook.

Feeding the koi
Feeding the koi
The shrine cat
The shrine cat
A rest on a bench
A rest on a bench
Writing an ema
Writing an ema
The ema rack
The ema rack

A stamp book, and good deeds nobody sees

Press the stamps of the grounds into your book one by one. Some can be pressed only on a festival day or at a certain hour, others must be found by their clue. Fill a page and the shrine gives you a keepsake.

Bring a lost wallet to the reception. Help someone up. Walk a lost child to the shrine office. There is no marker and no list: only those who notice can do these good deeds, and they stay in your diary and in four numbers, virtue, faith, purity and bonds.

The stamp book
The stamp book
A good deed nobody sees
A good deed nobody sees

Fair stalls and keepsake photos

On fair days the stalls are up and the food tables are always busy. You can keep a stall yourself: call out to passers-by, hand over what they buy and take your commission. Take a photo as a selfie or ask someone to take it; counted in with "ichi, ni no, san!", it carries the shrine's seal and can be posted to X, Facebook or LINE.

A busy fair
A busy fair
Keeping a stall
Keeping a stall
A photo with the shrine's seal
A photo with the shrine's seal

Anyone, in any form

Besides a person, you can come as a cat, a dog, a fox, a sika deer, a bird or a koi. From the roofs, from under the water, from down by the ground, the same shrine looks different. In any form you can bow at the torii and pray in quiet.

A sparrow lands on the approach
A sparrow lands on the approach
A pigeon over the pond
A pigeon over the pond
A koi under the drum bridge
A koi under the drum bridge
A fox at the Inari torii
A fox at the Inari torii
A sika deer in its seasonal coat
A sika deer in its seasonal coat
A shiba prays before the hall too
A shiba prays before the hall too
Under the bench, as only a cat knows it
Under the bench, as only a cat knows it

Visiting together

You see other visitors walk, bow and hang their ema, and hear their coins and the bell. Only so many may be inside at once; when it is busy you wait your turn outside the torii. There is no chat between visitors: the shrine stays a quiet place.

Grounds that remember

Fallen leaves pile up and the miko sweeps them. A coin that missed the box stays on the paving, and the fortune you tied is still there next time.

Visiting together
Visiting together

How to begin

No sign-up needed. Visit as a guest, straight away.

  1. Choose a shrine on the map of Japan
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    Choose a shrine on the map of Japan

    See how many are visiting now, and how many wait outside the torii.

  2. Choose who you are
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    Choose who you are

    Stay a guest, or sign in with Google, LINE or Apple to carry your notebook to another device.

  3. Through the clouds to the grounds
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    Through the clouds to the grounds

    You come down from the sky and stand before the first torii.

In 13 languages

The game speaks 13 languages, for those who live in Japan and those who visit it. Choose one and the game opens in it; you can change it any time inside the game too.

日本語Japaneseやさしい日本語Easy JapaneseEnglishEnglish简体中文Chinese (Simplified)繁體中文Chinese (Traditional)한국어KoreanTiếng ViệtVietnamesePortuguêsPortuguese (Brazil)EspañolSpanishFilipinoFilipinoBahasa IndonesiaIndonesianไทยThaiनेपालीNepali

We await you at the torii.

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