• Akama Shinto shrine is characterized by vivid red color buildings and Antoku emperor is enshrined, who went into the sea after the battle of genji and heike. There is atmosphere of the sea goddess castle somehow. It was designed to follow the sea goddess legend.

• Akama Shinto shrine
  Emperor Antoku is enshrined. Festival May 3, Former Emperor Festival
  He dived into the sea on March 24 1185, at the age of eight, after the battle between Genji and Heike family. It burnt down on July 2, 1945 due to war damage. However, it revived on April 24, 1965 and it completed. Generous imperial prince His Highness was invited, and 100 establishment anniversaries were done on October 7, 1975. His Highness Takamatsunomiya was invited, and the ceremony of 800 years had done on May 2, 1985.
  
  Suitenmon gate or The Water Heaven Gate
  Mr. Risaburo Nakabe of the vice president of Taiyo Fishery contributed a large sum on November 7, 1957. The age of completion and the large exposition holding of the 70th Shimonoseki municipal administration anniversary and the under-the-sea tunnel at the same time. It was assumed to "Because the sleeve still got wet now, only dragon in the sea thought of the Konomi product" of the song is the cause of the palace of the sea goddess making. Emperor Hirohito was invited on April 7, 1958, and the ceremony at the time of the traffic beginning was held.

• Japan West Gate Hachimangu Shrine
  On the way to Iwashimizu from Usa to Kyoto, what created in this place as a defense god in Japanese west gate, because this area was scenery superb, is a village shrine, Hachimangu shrine about 1,200 years ago. A lot of warring lords' such as Mr. Ouchi and Mr. Mori respecting was collected from the Muromachi age to Edo period since then including the Kamakura Shogunate. The misfortune of the war on July 1, 1945 burnt down. But in 1962 and 1954, there were reconstruction twice by parishioner's devotion and the building of a Shinto shrine happily completed. Vermilion was vividly completed.

Look up at Suitenmon Gate	Imaginary palace where Dragon and Sea-goddess live in bottom in the ocean. Palace of the sea goddess castle. This shrine is said like the palace.
The stage of the late emperor festival on May 3 remains.	It looks up at Suitenmon- gate from the inside.	Mother lion that holds lionet	Father lion that obtains gem
Suitenmon-gate looking from big shrine building		Looking up at the big shrine building
Left image of Korean dog that defends big shrine	Right image of Korean dog	The Bid shrine was seen from diagonal	Precincts
Front of the big shrine	Inside is inner worship shrine	There are a stage, a corridor, and a pond in the big shrine.
West gate guard shrine	It is next to Akama shrine	Precincts of the shrine	Antoku emperor Amida-ji Temple Imperial mausoleum
Water memorial tower	Heike family's seven piling tomb	Grave of 14 high rank soldiers of Heike family	Hoichi-house
Wooden Hoichi	Old post office and Akita-shokai	Oldest post office in Japan built in 1900	Trading building built in 1915 called Akita-shokai

2006/07/01