If you've seen the cover of Memoirs of a Geisha then you've seen one tiny piece of this sprawling shrine. More than a third of the Shinto shrines in Japan are dedicated to the god Inari, and this one is the oldest, and largest, dating back over a thousand years. There are thousands upon thousands of torii lining almost every pathway here, each donated by a Japanese business due to the nature of the shrine. The Inari stop on the JR Nara line dumps you out right in front of this shrine. The fox statues all over the place were pretty cool. With the rain there were very few people around. Some of the open shops up in the temple were pretty much unstaffed...
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