Shrine honors cats at a Japanese island where they outnumber humans Updated: May. 28, 2024, 12:33 p.m. | Published: May. 28, 2024, 12:14 p.m.

ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi — TASHIROJIMA, Japan (AP) — On a small island off Japan's northeastern coast, visitors make offerings at a shrine for unlikely local guardians: cats. The "Neko Jinja," or ...

Omatsu Daigongen Shrine is in Anan, Tokushima Prefecture, an about 50-minute drive from Tokushima City along a mountain road. A 6-foot-tall beckoning cat greeted me at the side of the main gate.

TASHIROJIMA, Japan (AP) — On a small island off Japan’s northeastern coast, visitors make offerings at a shrine for unlikely local guardians: cats. The “Neko Jinja,” or Cat Shrine… ...

TASHIROJIMA, Japan (AP) — On a small island off Japan’s northeastern coast, visitors make offerings at a shrine for unlikely local guardians: cats. The “Neko Jinja,” or Cat Shrine ...

Shrine at a Japanese island honors cats where they outnumber humans A cat walks across the altar at Cat Shrine on Tashirojima island in Ishinomaki, northeastern Japan, Saturday, May 18, 2024.