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Takahata Fudoson
One 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.
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Kaminarimon
Its formal name is Furaijinmon. A dragon is carved into the base of the great lantern.
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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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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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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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Kawasaki Daishi
Among the most visited temples in Japan at new year. Known as a Daishi who wards off misfortune, and for the rhythmic sound of sweet-cutting along its approach.
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Kenchoji Sanmon
Called the tanuki gate, from a legend that a tanuki took the form of the abbot to raise the funds.
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Engakuji Shariden
A National Treasure, and the leading example of Zen-style architecture.
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