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Shimakojinja Shrine

📍 Kyoto

Amino is the setting of the Urashima Taro legend as recorded in the Tango Fudoki, where he appears as Mizunoe no Urashimako. Shimako Shrine enshrines that figure. Nearby is a rocky inlet called Tsundame, where he is said to have kept the fish he caught.

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