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Questions and answers
If your question is not here, write to us from the contact page or from the reception of the shrine office in the game.
Is this a real shrine?
No. It is a made-up shrine, built and visited the way real ones are. It belongs to no real shrine or religious body.
Does it cost anything?
No. The money in your wallet on the grounds is play money and cannot be exchanged for real money. There is nothing to buy inside the game at present.
What can I play on?
A phone or a computer with a recent browser (Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox). Nothing to install. On older devices it may run slowly.
Do I need to sign up?
No. You can visit as a guest straight away. Sign in with Google, LINE or Apple to carry your notebook to another device and have it kept for longer.
Where is my record kept?
In your browser. When visiting together is open, the shrine office's server keeps a copy too. A guest who has not signed in is forgotten after an hour away and begins as a new guest next time. A signed-in visitor's record is deleted after 400 days without a visit.
Who are the other people I see?
Other visitors on the same grounds right now, and some AI visitors the shrine office places to keep the grounds lively. There is no chat between visitors. You can hide the names over heads in the settings, and report an unsuitable name or ema on the spot.
It says to wait outside the torii.
Only so many visitors may be inside at once. When it is busy you wait your turn, and you enter by yourself as soon as there is room.
Who writes the answers of the gūji and the miko?
AI, drawing on what it knows of shrine manners and festivals. Read them as a guide. Neither your question nor the answer is kept.
I want my ema removed.
Tell us the day you wrote it and what it says, from the contact page. Someone else's unsuitable ema can be reported on the spot. The rack keeps only the newest plaques; old ones fade away.
When are the festivals?
The grounds keep Japan's calendar and Japan time. The festivals page lists every day and hour. Kagura is danced every day.
Can I visit as an animal?
Yes: as a cat, a dog, a fox, a sika deer, a bird or a koi, walking, flying and swimming the grounds. In any form you can bow at the torii and pray.
Which languages are there?
Thirteen: Japanese, Easy Japanese, English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Korean, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Spanish, Filipino, Indonesian, Thai and Nepali. Change it any time in the game's settings.
What happens to the photos I take?
You can save them to your device. Only when you post one to X, Facebook or LINE is it placed on the server, and it is deleted after 30 days.