Tsubaki Grand Shrine

Tsubaki Grand Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Tsubaki is the principal shrine of the deity Sarutahiko-no-Okami and one in every of Japan's oldest shrines. According to the shrine's data, it became founded in the year three BCE. Other deities enshrined include Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto, the spouse of Sarutahiko who became presupposed to have performed a dance which added Amaterasu the Sun Goddess out of hiding in a cave, and Ninigi-no-Mikoto, grandson of the Sun Goddess and the mythical first ruler of the kingdom.

As Sarutahiko-no- Okami is likewise respected in Aikido, Tsubaki has a martial arts hall for practice, as well as an archery range for the practitioners of Kyudo. There is also a chashitsu teahouse called Reisho-an, donated via the founder of Panasonic, Matsushita Konosuke. Behind the principle shrine corridor is a sacred waterfall, Kinryu Myojin no Taki, where misogi is practiced. It is one of the great place to visit.