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Saijo, Ehime Prefecture
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The mountain road to the temple closes completely from late December through February, and even when open, large buses are banned from attempting the narrow, winding ascent.
Yokomine-ji is Temple No. 60 on the Shikoku Pilgrimage.
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The divine spirits venerated at this sacred place
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Fascinating facts about this place
The mountain road to the temple closes completely from late December through February, and even when open, large buses are banned from attempting the narrow, winding ascent.
Yokomine-ji is Temple No. 60 on the Shikoku Pilgrimage.
At 745 meters elevation, Yokomineji is one of the notorious 'henro korogashi' temples, which literally translates to 'place where pilgrims tumble down' due to its treacherous steep slopes.
The temple's architecture is actually shrine-style because it was forcibly converted to a Shinto shrine in early Meiji, then restored as a Buddhist temple in 1909 but kept its original shrine buildings.
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