The tunnel to Makai/the demon world in YuYu Hakusho.A special ritual involving a bonfire and Sacred Bow and Arrows is required to open it, and the Zashiki has to sacrifice himself to close it from the inside once the battle is over. During the final battle against Hakumen no Mono, the mystic Saya and her Zashiki-warashi open a gate to the Underworld resembling an elaborated Japanese-style door to allow the Cavalry of the Dead to join the battle.
During the manga-only Mist arc, they encounter a portal in northern Japan near Tono and use it to dispose of the Nigh-Invulnerable mist Youkai Shumuna. Tora mentions seeing the claw marks of a monster outside one of these gates and he's nearly sucked inside one too. Harmless to living humans, they drag in wandering souls and living Youkai, sending them to the Underworld.
The Underworld Gates in Ushio and Tora are scattered all over Japan and usually resemble caverns or holes, sometimes closed by boulders wrapped in shimenawa. Saint Seiya's Underworld has a copy of the Arc de Triomphe with " Abandon all hope, ye who enter" written on it. While it is unsure whether the Nebula itself is hellish, the very act is bad for Earth because it allows Pharaoh 90 passage to Earth where, depending on the adaptation, he will either make the Earth his new home infested by Daimons, or simply destroy the planet. In Sailor Moon Infinity arc or S season, Mistress 9 opens a portal to the Tau Nebula. Turns out those oddly shaped buildings aren't horns, they're door handles. Present in the finale of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. The heroes have to look for another way, but later Sesshomaru, thanks to his sword Tenseiga (which can actually hurt Gozu and Mezu, as well as reviving the dead) is allowed to cross the treshold safely. Second, even if you just smash the chain and open the gate by force, the light coming from the portal will turn all living beings in reach to stone. First, it's guarded by the gigantic and invincible Youkai Gozu and Mezu, who will only let the dead pass (and if you're alive, then they'll help you with that). In Inuyasha, the heroes at one point have to go through one to recover a shard of the Shikon Jewel before Naraku gets it: the gate is a massive iron door chained and located in a stone grotto in a volcanic place, with petrified demons fused to the floor. Anyone who enters it will gain Power at a Price. The Gate of Truth in Fullmetal Alchemist contains "The Truth" (which looks suspiciously like "The Gate of Hell" sculpture in the 2003 anime version). 
Blue Exorcist: Gehenna Gate is central to the plot, and Satan wants to open it. There's also the Garganta, which allows people to enter Hueco Mundo, the home of hollows. Ichigo purges a Hollow but because his sins before becoming a Hollow were so great he could not go on to Soul Society (which is saying something considering it's inhabited by the likes of Aizen, Zaraki Kenpachi and Kurotsuchi Mayuri) a Hellgate opens up and pulls him in. 
Crops up at one point early on in Bleach.It requires Yami's Dark Magic and Vangeance's World Tree Magic. In Black Clover, the Dark Triad's goal is to create the Tree of Qliphoth, a magic channel that would connect the underworld to the living world, allowing devils to pour in.note This is because only items belonging to gods can be used to shut the door, and the magical princess that Chacha transforms into was a warrior queen who got deified by the people. The protagonists close it by using their Transformation Trinkets, and thus removing Chacha's ability to transform into a Magical Girl Warrior.
One of the later episodes of Akazukin Chacha has a villain plotting to open one of these.
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