Japan, Kyoto, Fushimi Inari Taisha, New Year. Crowds of people heading towards the main torii gate and entrance to the most important fox shrine in Japan. Route lined with food stalls. People are making their very important first visit to the shrine of the new year.
Fushimi Inari Taisha, Kyoto, Japan, 3rd January 2018. The third day of the three day National holiday in Japan to celebrate the new year. People heading for the Fushimi Inari shrine, the most popular Fox shrine in Japan. Famous for it thousands of torii gates that trails along four kilometers of pathways up the mount Inari directly at the base of the shrine. January 1St saw an estimated one million visitors. Today was much quieter but crowd control still began almost a kilometer away from the entrance of the shrine marked by a massive vermillion torii gate. Credit-Malcolm Fairman/Alamy Live News.
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Location: Fushimi Inari Taisha, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
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