This beautiful small shrine is next to the teramachi district of Matsue city. Whily walking through the town, it is really worth a visit. There are some nice food places next to it, and especially in spring time you can see many plum blossoms and cherry blossoms.

On our way to the Shinji Lake we have decided to walk around and look at some small temples and shrines in this area (city area near the lake). Shirakata Tenman-gu Shrine is a really nice shrine with some beautiful plum trees, which has started to blossom, as we were there. The city area is so peaceful, that you sometimes even foget beeing surrounded by modern houses. Passing the Tera-machi you can see some small temples and shrines one after another. And maybe one may think that they all look pretty the same, but they don't. Each one of them has it's one atmosphere and it's one character. The apartment houses are standing so close to the shrines that the people there seem to be becoming one with this unique place.