Shrines

Sensoji Temple

-日枝神社

Sensoji Temple

Tokyo's oldest temples, Sensoji Temple in Asakusa.
The temple was built in 645. Sensoji is famos for its big,
red gate, imposing temple buildings, and five-story
pagoda. Sensoji is a neighborhood of old Tokyo area.
Nakamise-dori that its approximately 250m long of
entrance route lined with hundreds of stores to the
thousands of visitors.

Meiji Jingu Shrine


Meiji Jingu Shrine is next to Yoyogi Park. Meiji Jingu Shrine is dedicated to the deified spirits of Emperor Meiji (1852-1912), Japan's first modern, constitutional monarch, and his wife, Empress Shoken (1849-1914). Meiji Shrine is known for traditional Japanese-style wedding place which are visible to visitors. The sightseeing of Aoyama, Omotesando, and Harajuku are a short walk away.  A forest of more than 100,000 trees surrounds Meiji Jingu Shrine.

Yushima Seido

Yushima Seido Temple, in its imposing propriety, speaks to the role of Chinese Confucianism in Japan. This temple was established in Ueno by tutor to the first four Shoguns, the neo-Confucian scholar Hayashi Razan (1583-1657). In the late 18th century, it became the official training institution for bureaucrats of the Shogunate upon its move to its current location in Tokyo's Bunkyo ward. Yushima Seido has an unshakable place in the development of Japan's education system, having been the site of several education-related institutions. Although reconstructed as recently as 1935, the current buildings convey the respectable grandeur of the temple's history, and have the world's biggest Confucius statue. Yushima Seido is a popular place of supplication for students. 10 minutes' walk north of Yushima Seido is Yushima Tenjin.
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Narita-san Fukagawa Fudo-Do (Fukagawa Fudoson)

Popularly known as Fukagawa Fudoson, Narita-san Fukagawa Fudo-Do is a temple in the richly historical east Tokyo Fukagawa district. The temple's draw card is its looks: featuring the extremes of age and modernity, as well as the depth of tradition that has built up around the temple over the centuries since its inception. The old temple worship hall was relocated to here in the 1860s, and the original relocated building remains to this day - making it a very old structure for Tokyo; and the striking cubist new main hall was built in the 2010s. Fukagawa Fudoson's rituals include cedar-stick burning and drumming rituals, creating the mystical atmosphere typical of Shingon Buddhism. The luxuriously decorated interior of the Old Hall is testimony to the temple's roots in the rising wealthy class of Tokyo back at the start of the 1700s. Part of Fukagawa Fudoson's attraction is its proximity to scores of other interesting temples in the Fukagawa neighborhood, easily making for a day of fulfilling historical Tokyo sightseeing.
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Yushima Tenmangu (Yushima Tenjin)

Yushima Tenjin is a picturesque shrine perched on high ground in Bunkyo ward, Tokyo. Yushima Tenjin dates from the fifth century, when it venerated a mythical Shinto god, then in the 14th century it became associated with the classical Confucian scholar, Sugawara no Michizane (845-903). The building, made of cedar, glows rich golden-brown, and inherits the design of a late-15th-century rebuilding. The details of the architecture are pleasing, with vivid carvings of scenes from legend. The shrine's divinity being a scholar, it is visited by students seeking an otherworldly hand for exam success: apparent in the votive plaques on racks in front of the shrine. A beautiful bronze nadeushi "stroking cow" outside is believed to confer healing. 10 minutes' walk south of Yushima Tenjin is Yushima Seido.
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Yasukuni Shrine

Yasukuni Shrine is dedicated to Japan's war dead, and as such is disproportionately political - as opposed to religious - in its significance. Its location at the top of Kudanzaka slope, on a site very close to the Imperial Palace, makes Yasukuni a commanding presence that helps define Tokyo's cityscape. Yasukuni Shrine's internal layout is also grandiose, from the towering torii gates on in through the vista up to the main shrine building. The the grounds have numerous statues and memorials here and there connected with war. Yasukuni Jinja even has its own war museum, albeit with a very nationalistic take on things. On weekends Yasukuni's grounds are a regular venue for second-hand markets. In mid-July, the shrine's summer Mitama Matsuri festival is hugely popular, drawing thousands of yukata-clad youth.
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Zojoji Temple

Zojoji Temple, in Tokyo's Minato ward, is replete with Tokyo history. Now neighbors with Tokyo Tower and Shiba Park, Zojoji used to cover the whole area, and is only a remnant of the massive complex it used to be. However, Zojoji is very much worth a visit for its long and intimate association with the Tokugawa family which seized national power at the beginning of the 17th century and wielded it from its castle (now the Imperial Palace) through to the end of the 19th century. Six of the fifteen Tokugawa Shoguns are therefore buried in Zojoji. Zojoji is also renowned for its Sangedatsu Gate, a building dating from 1622, which survived bombing during the Pacific War, making it supposedly the oldest wooden structure in Tokyo. The giant Daibonsho bell cast in 1673 is still tolled six times a day. And the tree planted there by 18th U.S. president, Ulysses S. Grant, is still growing strong.

Sengakuji Temple

Sengakuji Temple makes it into Tokyo's top ten purely for reasons of history and legend. This small, otherwise unremarkable temple in Minato ward, with little to commend it in terms of architecture or beauty of layout, is the resting place of the 47 Samurai (or 47 Ronin). The story of the 47 Ronin is a staple of inspirational legend in Japan, institutionalized in the form of the Chushingura narrative, and was catapulted to fame in the West with the 2013 movie, 47 Ronin. Sengakuji Temple has a modern museum, the Akogishi Kinenkan, displaying fascinating realia connected with the early 18th-century incident of loyalty and revenge, as well as an older annex showcasing the actual clothing and armor worn by the brave forty-seven on their deadly mission. Their graveyard at the far end of the temple, up the steps, is inspiring in its stony simplicity.
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Nippori-yanaka Area

Nezu Shrine

Nezu Shrine is near from Ueno Park. It was established over 2,000 years ago of Japanese history. It is famous for torii archway entrance that has the hundreds of torii(red gate like tunnel paths).

Tennoji Temple

Tennoji Temple leads up to by Sakura-dori, a long view of 

cherry blossom trees. Tennoji is the epitome of nature-blessed Buddhist tranquility. It is surrounded by Yanaka district that known for Tokyo's old area over 800 years of history.