The city of Ise, or more properly Ise-shi, is located in the Kansai region, in the south of the island known as central Honshu, in Mie prefecture. Certainly `main attraction is its Ise Shinto temple: Ise Jingu, inserted into the vast area of \u200b\u200bIse Shima National Park and consists of two main complexes and more than 100 temples and shrines minor .
L `Ise Jingu, the shrine which is built inside in 260 AD, is the main temple in the Shinto tradition, the most important, comparable to St. Peter for the Catholics or to Mecca for the Islamic faith. The main temple (Naiku) is dedicated to the goddess Amaterasu and the second (Geku) to the deity of housing, food and clothes.
Unlike all the great places of worship but the world is the main temple at Ise is built entirely of wood with interlocking structure where there is a single nail was used and is completely disassembled and rebuilt every 20 years in . This is necessary because the temple, built with untreated wood, might disappear in a few decades. The steps to build the new temple began eight years before the end because the materials must be completely new and obviously we start by pruning and sawing trees and then obtain the necessary facilities.
It is also fascinating as the "heart" of the temple is actually made up of one of the three sacred imperial jewels which contains: the "ancestral mirror" that together with the "sword" and the "jewel" is the symbol of imperial power conferred by the sun goddess Amaterasu to the emperor through the possession of these objects.
outfitting of the new temple and the dismantling of old, placed on two separate but adjoining land, thereby requiring removal of the sacred mirror of a temple to another following a `silent and solemn ceremony that S engu No Gi which would not disturb the deity that lodges itself in the mirror (the Shinto religion is basically a animist shaman of mold that has a pantheon of tens of thousands of small and large deity harbored virtually everywhere from small rock to the mountain, the river covered all `old doll from the shrine of the family). go to the Temple of Ise, besides the unquestionable historical and cultural interest and the place however, is also the occasion to visit the large park that surrounds it, a real oasis of ancient Japan, where the walking paths and the high trees we encounter in courses of water, wooden bridges, dozens of small temples and shrines, stone staircases, lanterns and giant carp ponds populated by colorful. Speaking of animals is possible to find even in the sacred from the roosters 'tails' long and colorful, and other birds protected by the monks of the complex.
Since then a place of interest throughout the area of \u200b\u200bthe temple and the park is very organized and there are places to eat and rest, from Okageyokocho, the area that plays a district of a small village old Japanese where there are dozens of souvenir shops and typical food where it is possible to stop drinking a cup of tea, eating cakes or to make a real meal before heading off or at the end of the visit.
recommend as periods for the visit is certainly an spring el `autumn. Even of the summer (outside of July, the rainy season) due to the dense vegetation of the surrounding forest is possible to visit the temple and the park without suffering too much the typical hot and humid Japanese. From April 5 to 6 and September 22 to 24 are held festivals (matsuri) of the temple while in the Last week of July Fireworks in the city of Ise, with parades and traditional events.
The area around the city of Ise is also famous as a resort area in particular Arre of Kashikojima and Toba-equipped maritime location famous for the goodness of seafood and also, in the case of ` Toba area, for the AMA, the pickers pearls. It is here that is playing the famous company Mikimoto. To get to Ise starting from the city of Nagoya, Kyoto or Osaka you can take the company's dedicated Kintetsu Isuzugawa and get off at the nearest station to the main sanctuary.
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