Watazumi Shrine
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Watazumi Shrine (和多都美神社) is a shinto shrine on Tsushima Island in Japan.[1]
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Watazumi Shrine | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Shinto |
Deity | Hikohohodemi no Mikoto and Toyotamabime |
Location | |
Geographic coordinates | 34°22′45.5″N 129°18′42.7″E |
Glossary of Shinto |
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Lots of tourists came there from South Korea.[2][3][4][5] But in January 2020 they banned tourists because South Korean tourists did bad things.[2][3][4][5]
It has a famous row of five torii gates in a row with two in the ocean similar to Itsukushima Shrine.[1]
In 2020 it was damaged by a typhoon and Ghost of Tsushima fans helped raise money to repair it.[6][7][8][9]
It is sometimes called also known as Watatsumi Shrine[1].
It should not be confused with the nearby Kaijin Shrine, also sometimes called Watatsumi Shrine, which is much older or the more distant Watatsumi Shrine in Kobe both of which have similar names, or the completely unrelated Watatsu Shrine