Kibitsu Shrine

**Walk the corridor both ways.** It falls 360 metres down the ridge and the view back up it, with the roof line following the ground rather than stepping, is the shot everyone comes for. Going down and turning around is a 20-minute round trip. **Narukama is a real ritual, not a demonstration.** You submit a question, rice is steamed over the cauldron, and the sound is interpreted. It runs 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM and not on Fridays. Ueda Akinari built a ghost story around it in 1776 and it is still performed the same way. **The roof form exists only here.** Hiyoku irimoya, two joined gabled hip roofs. From the front of the worship hall it is invisible; from the slope beside the corridor it is obvious. **Peonies in late April, hydrangeas in June.** Both are planted along the corridor, which turns the walk into the attraction twice a year. **Kibiji cycling road starts nearby.** The flat route past burial mounds and the Bitchu Kokubunji pagoda runs from here, and rental bicycles are available at the station.