Kifune Shrine

Kibune is famous among locals and tourisits; it is a residential community in a forested valley in the northern piles of Kyoto City, which created around Kifune Shrine. As per legend, a goddess went in a pontoon from Osaka as far as possible up the waterway into the mountains north of Kyoto, and Kifune Shrine was worked at the site where her vessel travel had arrived at an end. Kifune Shrine is devoted to the divine force of water and rain and accepted to be the defender of those adrift.

Here people can acquire a special kind of fortune composed on paper slips omikuji that uncover their messages when dunked into water. Okunomiya, the internal sanctum and unique site of Kifune Shrine, lies around one kilometer additionally up the valley. It has a vast shake, known as the pontoon stone, which is said to be the place the goddess' yellow vessel is covered.