Meiji Shrine
Tokyo's Most Important Shinto Shrine
Shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken, set within a 70-hectare evergreen forest in...
Hanazono Shrine
Shinjuku's Guardian Shrine, Steps from Golden Gai
Shinjuku's guardian shrine since before 1603, squeezed between Yasukuni-dori and the bars of Gold...
Hie Shrine
Escalators Up One Side, a Red Torii Tunnel Up the Other
A hilltop shrine in Nagatacho that guarded Edo Castle for the Tokugawa. Free to enter, open 6:00 ...
Kanda Myojin
Akihabara's Guardian Shrine, Where Masakado Sits with Daikoku
A shrine of about 1,300 years' standing, moved to its hill above Akihabara in 1616, with Daikoku,...
Nezu Shrine
Seven Edo-Era Buildings, 3,000 Azaleas and a Tunnel of Red Torii
A gongen-style shrine finished in 1706 whose seven main structures are all Important Cultural Pro...
Okunitama Shrine
Musashi's Old Provincial Shrine and Its Lights-Out May Festival
The soja, or combined shrine, of old Musashi Province, five minutes from Fuchu Station, reached b...
Suitengu
Nihonbashi's Safe-Childbirth Shrine, Busiest Every Twelfth Day
Tokyo's best-known shrine for safe childbirth, a minute from Suitengumae Station, rebuilt in 2016...
Tomioka Hachimangu
Where Edo Sumo Began and Crowds Soak the Mikoshi Bearers
Founded in 1627 and known locally as Fukagawa no Hachiman-sama, the shrine where Edo's ticketed s...
Ueno Toshogu
A Gold-Leaf Shrine to Ieyasu That Survived War, Quake and Air Raid
Tokugawa Ieyasu's shrine in Ueno Park, founded in 1627; the gold-leaf Konjiki-den and its gates w...
Yasukuni Shrine
Tokyo's Official Cherry Tree and a 25-Meter Torii at Kudanshita
A large Shinto shrine at the top of Kudan-zaka, founded in 1869, that enshrines those who died fo...