10,000–300 BCE) sites have also been discovered there. Suwa Taisha is especially famous for its thrilling Onbashira Matsuri. This festival is held every six years, in the Year of the Tiger and t ...

Legend has it that Omiwatari is the route Takeminakata, the male god of the Suwa Taisha shrine complex's Kamisha Shrine in Suwa, used to visit the goddess Yasakatome of its Shimosha Shrine in the ...