You may meet a Zashiki Warashi, the creature that brings you good luck! Kamemaro Shrine

  • Iwate
  • Sightseeing
Kame-maro Shrine is located on the grounds of the Ryokan "Ryokuso" in Kindaichi Onsenkyo, Ninohe City, Iwate Prefecture, and is well known to many people as a shrine dedicated to the Zashiki Warashi.
As some of you may have heard, there is an old saying that if you meet a Zashiki Warashi, you will be blessed with amazing good fortune, and it is said that a house with a Zashiki Warashi will prosper and a house without a Zashiki Warashi will decline.
The Zashiki Warashi enshrined at Midorikaze-so is said to have originated from Kame-maro, an ancestor who died in the Nanbokucho Period, and when Midorikaze-so was almost completely destroyed by fire in 2009, only this Kame-maro Shrine was miraculously unaffected by the fire and escaped the damage.
If you have a chance to stay in or around Kindaichi Onsenkyo or Ryokuso, please visit Kame-maro Shrine.
Photos used in this page were taken from the Tohoku Tourism Promotion Organization.
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