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TokyoShrines & TemplesThat forest was not already there. About 100,000 trees, donated from every part of Japan, were planted by volunteer youth groups: an artificial wood. The species were chosen on the assumption that it would become a natural forest centuries later. A design premised on time its designers would never live to see.
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TokyoShrines & TemplesThe tutelary shrine of Edo. The Kanda festival is one of the three great festivals of Japan.
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TokyoShrines & TemplesThe leading shrine of learning in eastern Japan. In exam season it disappears under votive tablets. It is also known for its plum blossom.
TokyoShrines & TemplesThe largest Hachiman shrine in Edo. Public sumo tournaments began here, and a monument to the yokozuna stands in its grounds.
TokyoShrines & TemplesOne of the three great Fudo temples of eastern Japan. The Fudo hall and the Niomon gate are Important Cultural Properties. It is also the funerary temple of Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi.
TokyoShrines & TemplesAn artificial wood planted with about 100,000 donated trees. The species were chosen on the assumption it would be natural forest a century on.
TokyoShrines & TemplesIts formal name is Furaijinmon. A dragon is carved into the base of the great lantern.
TokyoShrines & TemplesThe shrine of the Sanja festival. It enshrines the three men who found the principal image of Sensoji.
TokyoShrines & TemplesIts buildings are collectively an Important Cultural Property. Known for its thousand torii and its azalea garden.
TokyoShrines & TemplesA cherry tree in its grounds serves as the reference tree for Tokyo's blossom declaration.
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TokyoShrines & TemplesAnother site claiming the origin of the beckoning cat. Known for matchmaking.
TokyoShrines & TemplesA twin-dragon torii, with dragons coiled around the pillars. A Fuji mound stands in the grounds.
TokyoShrines & TemplesIt 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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TokyoShrines & TemplesThe Ise of Tokyo. Held to be the first shrine in Japan to hold a Shinto wedding.
TokyoShrines & TemplesThe tutelary shrine of Shinjuku, with its Tori no Ichi market and a history of sideshows and theatre in its grounds.
TokyoShrines & TemplesThe Tokyo branch of Naritasan. Its prayer hall is covered wall to wall in Sanskrit characters.
TokyoShrines & TemplesWhere Nichiren died. Its five-storey pagoda is held to be the oldest in eastern Japan.
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TokyoShrines & TemplesA sacred mountain of tengu belief. Its yearly number of climbers is said to be among the highest in the world.
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