If you have the impression I'm opposed to jinja shintô, please know that it is very much the opposite. I quite like jinja, and for that matter tera.

If you are fortunate enough to have one by you, you should both avail yourself of their services and support them.

There is an aesthetic to the buildings, grounds, and rituals that makes it much easier to sense the kami around you; and not just the gosaijin, but also all the other kami in that location.

And of course the ones in Japan have a air of human history around them that is sadly lacking in much of the New World — where it is rare to find non-Native American sites that are more that a couple of hundred years old.