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Dish · Miyajima
Anago-meshi
Grilled conger (anago) with shoyu sauce, sliced and arranged over rice cooked in broth. A Miyajima specialty, sold since 1901 as a train-station snack at the boarding point for the island.
Hiroshima · Japan District of Hatsukaichi
Miyajima
In the destination Hiroshima and Miyajima.
In the photo: Miyajima coast and the slopes of Mount Misen.
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The city
What to expect from Miyajima.
Miyajima is the island of Itsukushima, in Hatsukaichi district, in Hiroshima Bay. It is considered sacred and is home to the Itsukushima Shrine, with the large torii gate in the sea, a World Heritage site. The town by the pier has Omotesando Street, known for maple-leaf sweets and oysters, free-roaming deer, and temples such as Daisho-in. Mount Misen, covered in forest, has a ropeway and hiking trails.
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Shrine
Itsukushima Shrine
The shrine of red corridors built over the tidal area of Miyajima Island, with the large torii gate in the sea; a World Heritage site.
Mountain.
Mount Misen
Miyajima’s sacred mountain, with primary forest, temples connected to the monk Kukai, giant rocks and viewpoints over the Inland Sea, reachable by ropeway or trail.
Temple
Daishō-in
Shingon Buddhist temple at the foot of Mount Misen, with hundreds of statues of the Buddha’s disciples wearing knitted hats, prayer cylinders and a lantern-lit cave.
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