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Japan's most sacred Shinto shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years for more than a millennium

Posted 9/23/25

Each generation, Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, is knocked down and rebuilt from scratch, a massive, $390 million demolition and construction job that takes about nine years. It …

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