Hakuto Shrine

**Read the myth first.** Without the Kojiki story of the rabbit, the sharks and Okuninushi, this is a small shrine with rabbit statues. With it, every element on the site is a scene from the text. **Buy the white pebbles.** Small white stones are sold at the shrine for writing wishes on and placing at the torii. It is the local practice rather than an ordinary ema. **Walk down to the beach.** Hakuto beach below the shrine is a curve of white sand and is a swimming and surfing beach in summer, and empty the rest of the year. **It is on Route 9 with a roadside station.** Which makes it an easy stop when driving the coast rather than a destination, and the parking is free and large. **Skin conditions as well as matchmaking.** The healing half of the story gives the shrine a second, less publicised following. The votive plaques reflect both.