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Itsukushima, popularly known as Miyajima, “Shrine Island”, is an island in the north-west of Hiroshima Bay, in the western Inland Sea. In 1643 Hayashi Gahō named it one of the Three Views of Japan. It belongs to the city of Hatsukaichi; until the 2005 merger it formed the town of Miyajima.
The island is famous for Itsukushima Shrine, a World Heritage Site. The site was long held sacred, and locals may have built a simple shrine before the complex was founded in 593; in 1168 the warrior-courtier Taira no Kiyomori did much to give the shrine its present form. It has its own page, Itsukushima Shrine, about 3.7 km from the point this page is mapped to; Mt. Misen is about 2.3 km off. We have not checked ferry connections to the island.
Written by japan-spots.com (2026-09-22) from the sources credited on this page. Distances are straight lines between map positions.
Photos
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence — see credits
- Miyajima From The Ferry — Mark Bucayan · CC BY 3.0 · source · resized
- Miyajima in de provincie Aki — Utagawa; Kunisada (I) , Utagawa died 1865; Yamaguchiya Tobei Kunisada (I) · Public domain · source · resized
- Miyajima Ropeway (13890461069) — redlegsfan21 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source · resized
- Miyajima — Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized
- Itsukushimajinja-5 — Starbacks · Public domain · source · resized
- Flock of Japanese macaques near Miyajima Ropeway Shishi-iwa station — Licsak · CC BY 4.0 · source · resized
- Itsukushima in Aki Province — Utagawa Hiroshige · Public domain · source · resized
- Battle of Miyajima-2 — Utagawa Sadahide · Public domain · source · resized
- A deer of Itsukushima — Prue Simmons · CC BY 2.0 · source · resized
- 1167-1 Miyajimachō, Hatsukaichi-shi, Hiroshima-ken 739-0588, Japan - panoramio (3) — ::::=UT=:::: · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized
What this place is
Itsukushima (厳島) is an island in the western part of the Inland Sea of Japan, located in the northwest of Hiroshima Bay. It is popularly known as Miyajima (宮島), which in Japanese means "Shrine Island".The island is one of Hayashi Gahō's Three Views of Japan specified in 1643.Itsukushima is part of the city of Hatsukaichi in Hiroshima Prefecture. The island was part of the former town of Miyajima before the 2005 merger with Hatsukaichi. Itsukushima is famous for the Itsukushima Shrine, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The shrine was considered a sacred site for a long time, it is possible that locals built a simple shrine on the site before the complex was built in 593 AD.In 1168 AD, Taira no Kiyomori, a warrior-courtier, greatly contributed to giving the shrine its current form.
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