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# Shinto ChaXi
- URL: https://www.cultofquality.com/shinto-chaxi/
- Published: 2012-07-30T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-03T23:23:00.000Z
- Author: Jason Cohen
- Tags: Japan

We hiked up behind one of the largest Shinto complexes in Southern Kyoto, walking along a stream, and stroling just fast enough to keep the mosquitoes at bay.

We came to a beautiful spot on one of the many branching trails, Shinto shrines in every direction, and made chaxi by one we found captivating.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/69/e4/69e46ae8-c7ea-4919-ab7f-c2c23a98bb8f/content/images/2023/01/DSCN3039.JPG)

Quite a nice session, and our last in Japan. Just as I was getting use to having matcha at the end of our chaxi’s too…

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/69/e4/69e46ae8-c7ea-4919-ab7f-c2c23a98bb8f/content/images/2023/01/DSCN3042.JPG)

I’m so happy Mr. Koike has taken to the idea of chaxi. I think by the time I return (with Institute members), he will have a group up and running, making matcha in nature all over Japan. One can hope!

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## Migrated Comments

### Emily Huang

> Was this the Fushimi Inari shrine with the thousands of torii gates? If it is, we visited this one too- they filmed Memoirs of a Geisha there. : ) Beautiful place!

**Jason's Reply**

> Dear Em,  
>  
> It is both the Fushimi Inari shrine and a beautiful place!  
>  
> Glad you recognized it!  
>  
> – Jason