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Visit Awa Shrine

Chiba Prefecture & the Boso Peninsula

Donny Kimball
8 min readMar 19, 2023

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Awa Jinja (安房 神社) in Tateyama Chiba has long enshrined Amenotomi-no-Mikoto, a kami who was the ancestor to the powerful Fujiwara clan.

For some reason, whenever I get overwhelmed by the challenges of life, I always find myself heading down to Chiba Prefecture’s bucolic Boso Peninsula. Last time this happened, I made a much-needed escape to Katsuura. Recently though, life dealt me another critical blow and I knew I needed to withdraw…

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Donny Kimball

I'm a travel writer and freelance digital marketer who blogs about the sides of Japan that you can't find in the mainstream media. https://donnykimball.com/