Partner With Us

Helping people visit shrines and temples with more care and more context.

Goshuin Journey is a bilingual home for goshuin collectors: a catalog of more than 54,000 jisha across Japan (close to 30,000 Shinto shrines and close to 25,000 Buddhist temples), tools for recording and organizing stamps, and plain-language guidance on etiquette for people who are new to the practice.

We work with tourism boards, cultural organizations, shrine and temple associations, researchers, and volunteers who care about how this tradition is presented to visitors. If that sounds like you or your organization, we would like to hear from you.

Ways to work together

Regional pilots

Feature a prefecture, city, or pilgrimage route with accurate shrine data, curated visit plans, and bilingual context for visitors.

Cultural and etiquette review

Help make sure what we teach visitors about goshuin, shrine etiquette, and temple customs is respectful and correct.

Official names and data corrections

Our shrine records began as OpenStreetMap data. Official readings, English names, and corrections from the people who know a site best are always welcome.

Visitor education

Co-develop guides that help international visitors approach shrines and temples thoughtfully rather than as a checklist.

Media and travel trade

Collaborate on features, campaigns, or programming for audiences planning culturally-minded travel in Japan.

Translation help

Everything on the site ships in English and Japanese. Native review of our copy makes it read naturally instead of literally.

Not sure where you fit? Send a note anyway — an introduction to the right person is genuinely useful too.

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