Most visitors come for the close to 10,000 red and orange lacquered torii gates that line ... optimal time to experience the shrine sans the crowds. The Fushimi Inari Shrine is free to visit ...

Fushimi Inari Taisha is famous for the vermillion shrine gates that line mountain paths. As the head Inari shrine, it has 30,000 subordinate shrines throughout Japan. Since its foundation in 711 ...