Senbon Torii Kyoto Audio Guide App Voicemap Senbon Torii are the famous gates at Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto The gates are densely packed together and ordered in a beautiful sequence from the foot of the mountain to the top As you walk through the gates you can see the visually stunning intertwining of the old faded archways with those that are bright red and scarletA shrine was erected as a tribute to the god of rice, Inari In 816, it was moved to its current location, at the base of the Inariyama hill The main tower and the main shrine, built in 1499, are the first to welcome visitors Behind them are smaller torii gates Known in the vernacular as Senbon Torii (literally “thousands of torii gates Senbon-torii 京都