Rainy Dawn Walk at Quiet Fushimi Inari | Kyoto, Japan

Walking through quiet Fushimi Inari Shrine and under 10,000 torii gates in the drizzly early dawn hours in Kyoto, Japan. Fushimi Inari is a very popular place for tourists interested in Japanese shrines and forest trails, but I prefer to visit places without crowds so I set out with rain in the forecast early in the morning. Higher up the mountain trail there is some rain, which sounds very nice on the forest foliage and torii gates overhead. Fushimi Inari has a number of small shrines along the path, but my favorites are the ones in the forest on the loop trail that runs atop the mountain, including Mitsurugisha, Yakuriki no Taki, and Ganrikisha. There is not really a sunrise but the darkness in the sky slowly fades and the early morning blue light starts to trickle through fog and mist into the forest. I thought it seemed almost magical, I hope you enjoy it too :)

On this walk I cut out some of the long stretches walking under the gates. However I visited Fushimi Inari about a year ago without any rain if you would like to see the full walk:    • Fushimi Inari Full Route at Dawn, Walking ...  

Mid June, 2025

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00:00 Preview
01:32 Great Torii
03:23 Flower Shrine Gate
16:24 Shirahata-ko Shrine
26:05 Mt. Inari Crossroads
31:47 Rain in the forest
35:54 Sannomine (Shimosha Shinseki)
41:53 Mount Inari summit
51:04 Mitsurugisha (Chojasha Shinseki)
54:45 Yakuriki no Taki
1:00:42 Gozendani Hohaisho
1:11:11 Ganrikisha

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