Small traditional wooden Munakata Shrine with roofed lanterns, paving, trees, and shaded water in Saitama, Japan, photographed in autumn.

Munakata Shrine on the Hikawa Shrine Approach

This autumn photograph shows the small traditional wooden Munakata Shrine in Saitama’s Omiya Ward, framed by roofed lanterns, trees, paving, and shaded water.
Autumn view of Munakata Shrine on the Hikawa Shrine approach in Saitama, featuring traditional wooden architecture, roofed lanterns, trees, paving, and shaded water.
Munakata Shrine on the Hikawa Shrine approach, Saitama, Japan, in autumn.
19.10.2008 · 宗像社, 氷川神社参道, 高鼻町四丁目, 大宮区, さいたま市, 埼玉県, 330-0803, 日本
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A small traditional wooden shrine stands at Munakata Shrine on the Hikawa Shrine approach in Saitama, Japan. Roofed lantern structures, stone paving, dense trees, and a shaded water surface create a quiet garden setting in autumn.

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The image presents a frontal, eye-level view of Munakata Shrine on the Hikawa Shrine approach in Takahanachō, Omiya Ward, Saitama, Japan. The central wooden structure has a weathered façade, a green-gray tiled roof, ornamental ridge fittings, and a pale wooden fence. Two matching roofed lantern structures flank the shrine, while stone paving leads through the wooded garden setting. Captured on 19 October 2008, the photograph records the shrine precinct in autumn daylight beneath a partly cloudy sky.

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A detailed architectural travel photograph of Munakata Shrine, showing its weathered wooden structure, roofed lanterns, paved foreground, and wooded setting on the Hikawa Shrine approach.

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— At Munakata Shrine on the Hikawa Shrine approach in Omiya Ward, Saitama, Japan.

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— Autumn, photographed on 19 October 2008.

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— A small wooden shrine, two roofed lantern structures, paving, trees, and shaded water.

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