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Asakusa Jinja
The shrine of the Sanja festival. It enshrines the three men who found the principal image of Sensoji.
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FIRST VISIT GUIDE
Learn how shrines and temples differ, then look at the photos
Start with the two explanations. Below them are photos and entries for shrines and temples across Japan.1,460 entries / page 16 of 61
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Nezu Jinja
Its buildings are collectively an Important Cultural Property. Known for its thousand torii and its azalea garden.
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Yasukuni Jinja
A cherry tree in its grounds serves as the reference tree for Tokyo's blossom declaration.
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Imado Jinja
Another site claiming the origin of the beckoning cat. Known for matchmaking.
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Shinagawa Jinja
A twin-dragon torii, with dragons coiled around the pillars. A Fuji mound stands in the grounds.
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Oji Inari Jinja
It claims to preside over all the Inari shrines of eastern Japan, and is known for the fox procession on New Year's Eve.
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Tokyo Daijingu
The Ise of Tokyo. Held to be the first shrine in Japan to hold a Shinto wedding.
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Hanazono Jinja
The tutelary shrine of Shinjuku, with its Tori no Ichi market and a history of sideshows and theatre in its grounds.
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Fukagawa Fudodo
The Tokyo branch of Naritasan. Its prayer hall is covered wall to wall in Sanskrit characters.
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Ikegami Honmonji
Where Nichiren died. Its five-storey pagoda is held to be the oldest in eastern Japan.
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Takaosan Yakuoin
A sacred mountain of tengu belief. Its yearly number of climbers is said to be among the highest in the world.
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Musashi Mitake Jinja
It holds a National Treasure suit of armour. Dogs may be brought to worship, under a belief in the divine dog.
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Ubae Homei Jinja
The tutelary shrine of Hachijojima, the faith of the island of kihachijo silk.
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Nogi Jinja
It enshrines General Nogi Maresuke and his wife. Their former residence stands next door.
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Atago Jinja (Tokyo)
The stairway of success runs to 86 steps, from the legend of Magaki Heikuro, who rode a horse up it.
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Suitengu (Tokyo)
Known for prayers for safe childbirth on the day of the dog. A branch of Kurume Suitengu.
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Toyokawa Inari Tokyo
Ooka Echizen was a devotee. Many who work in entertainment come here.
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Tsurugaoka Hachimangu
The town of Kamakura was laid out from this shrine outwards. Wakamiya Oji runs dead straight from the main hall to the sea. The shrine was placed first and the city built to match it, the reverse of Kamigamo and Shimogamo in Kyoto, which were there before the capital. Its deity came from Iwashimizu Hachimangu in Kyoto, and it was here that Hachiman belief spread through the east as the faith of the warrior class.
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Samukawa Jinja
The only shrine in Japan whose deity is said to ward off misfortune from all eight directions, a character without parallel elsewhere.
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Hakone Jinja
It faces Lake Ashi, with the Torii of Peace standing in the water. Most worshippers pair it with a visit to Kuzuryu Jinja.