[Columbine]

It's difficult to practice shintoism outside japan, or find shrines because the Kami tend to be connected to specific geographical locations. You can't export the kami of a sacred tree like you can Jesus.

Then again, Shintoism is about one of the most pragmatic religions I've ever come across. There's a great tale of a man who owned a pharmacy who got fed up of the drunks urinating down the alley beside his shop. He got a large rock and some rope that looked like the kind they tie around sacred objects and plonked it in the alley. Lo and behold, people stopped peeing in the ally. Gradually people started leaving coins on the rock. Then they started asking which kami it was for. Ever the entrepreneur, the pharmacist said it was the kami of ear medicine. Now there's a shrine there. Hows that for making the gods work for you?