Draft:Yamagata Gokoku Shrine

山形県護国神社 undefined is a Shinto shrine located in Japan. It is a Beppyo shrine, or a shrine that is particularly notable in a certain way with a significant history to it. It was founded in 1868, and is located in Yamagata Prefecture. It is a Gokoku Shrine, or a shrine dedicated to war dead. Such shrines were made to serve to enshrine the war dead, and they were all considered "branches" of Yasukuni Shrine. They were renamed from Shokonsha in 1939.

New years festival
The shrine has the largest Hatsumōde festival of Yamagata Prefecture with 130,000 people attending. Second most is Chōkai gassan ryōsho-gu