Torii Gate in Meiji Shrine forest in Tokyo Japan. A torii is a traditional Japanese gate found at the entrance of Shinto shrine

---

A torii is a traditional Japanese gate most commonly found at the entrance of or within a Shinto shrine, where it symbolically marks the transition from the profane to the sacred. The presence of a torii at the entrance is usually the simplest way to identify Shinto shrines, and a small torii icon represents them on Japanese road maps. They are however a common sight at Japanese Buddhist temples too, where they stand at the entrance of the temple's own shrine, called chinjusha and are usually very small.

---

Size: 6016px × 4016px
Location: Meiji shrine in Tokyo, Japan
Photo credit: © Francesco Dazzi / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: architecture, asia, attraction, background, beautiful, big, building, culture, entrance, environment, forest, garden, gate, green, heritage, hush, iconic, japan, japanese, kanto, landmark, landscape, lantern, light, meditative, meiji, nature, outdoors, path, peace, religion, religious, shinto, shintoism, shrine, sightseeing, sign, silence, spiritual, structure, symbol, temple, tokyo, tori, torii, tradition, tree, wood, zen