Nasu-onsen-jinja Shrine is at the foot of Chausu-dake Mountain (1915m). Nasu-yumoto Onsen Hot Springs is very close to this shrine. In 630, a local official named Kano Yukihiro hunted a white deer, which was eating the crops in his field. He shot an arrow at, and hit the deer, but it escaped. He followed the deer into Nasu-yumoto, and eventually found the deer soaking in an unknown hot spring to heal its wound. Looking at the deer in the hot spring, Kano thought it was a blessing from God. And so he dedicated this shrine. This shrine is also famous for Nasuno Yoichi, in the Tale of the Heike.
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Nasu-onsen-jinja Shrine
Discovery of Hot Springs

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Distant view of Nasu-onsen-jinja Shrine

Water droplets on a spider-web

Front of the shrine’s beautiful Hall of Worship

Early autumn leaves

One of the guardians of the shrine

Lanterns alongside the path to the shrine

Fresh water for purifying hands and mouth

Nasuno Yoichi in the Tale of the Heike

Path toward famous Sessho-seki Rock

Main building of the shrine

Holy tree at the precinct

Shrine gate
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