This paper aims to grasp the economic management of sacred places as tourists’ destination from the perspective of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology. Authors are going to describe how fee-collecting-system in the sacred places are understood and explained by managers, guides and visitors. The ethnographic data is obtained in two sacred sites in Japan: Sefa Utaki in Okinawa and catholic churches in Nagasaki. Both of the places are listed in UNESCO's world heritage. Since then there are more and more tourists as well as traditional pilgrim-ages. Authors analyze that the explanations for the entrance fees of these sacred places are becoming more ambiguous. It is unclear in the explanations what the money is paid for. The visitors generally expect that these fees would be used for the preservation of the sites’ environment, furthermore, the payment itself results in satisfying visitors’ religious needs. As a conclusion, authors argue that the act of payment and the religious experience in sacred places are not mutually exclusive, but they are reciprocal.