There is a JR Izumo station with the entrance shaped like Izumo Oyashiro’s hall of worship, but this is not the closest station to the shrine.
I took the local train line to Izumo Oyashiro station:
And was a little surprised at the retro western look of the station building:
It was a short walk until I reached the first torii. The sign on the right says that the shrine is going through the “Great Repairs of the Heisei Era”.
At Izumo Oyashiro, the inner shrine and other various buildings are hidden behind fences. But because they’re under repairs, the hall of worship has been turned into the temporary inner shrine. This means that during the repairs, worshippers can get right close to Ookuninushi by worshipping at the temporary inner shrine.
Repairs are scheduled to be completed in 2013.
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