Experience Fushimi Inari Taisha with a guide and choose the option that best fits your travel style. This tour offers three options: a private shrine highlights tour, a group shrine highlights tour, and a private full Mount Inari route for travellers who want to explore more deeply.
On the shrine highlights route, visit the main shrine, learn about Shinto etiquette, and walk through the famous vermilion Senbon Torii gates. Continue to the Okusha worship area, where you can try lifting the Omokaruishi stones, a local fortune tradition connected to wishes and prayers. This route is available as either a private tour or a group tour.
For a deeper experience, choose the private full Mount Inari route. After visiting the main shrine, Senbon Torii, and Okusha, continue up the mountain path towards Yotsutsuji, enjoying forest paths and views over Kyoto. Along the way, your guide will explain the culture of torii offerings, otsuka stone altars, sacred sites, and the living traditions of Inari worship.
The full route continues to Ichinomine Suehiro Shrine, the highest sacred point on the mountain, before visiting sites such as Mitsurugisha and Yakurikisha on the way down. This option reveals a quieter and more spiritual side of Fushimi Inari beyond the famous red gates.
Whether you choose the short shrine route or the full mountain route, this tour offers an easy-to-understand introduction to one of Kyoto’s most iconic and sacred places.
