Best Shrines And Temples In Kanto

Temple & Town Excellent With Kimono DressSenso-ji Temple

Asakusa is excellent with Kimono, Japanese traditional dress. Kimono looks beautiful at Senso-ji Temple and Edo-machi around it. In the season of New Year Days, Nakamise-dori is decorated with New Year ornaments, and we can enjoy happier atmosphere than usual.

Meigetsuin Blue You Can See At A Hydrangea Temple In KamakuraMeigetsuin Temple

Kamakura is renown for hydrangea in this season, and Meigetsuin Temple is one of the most popular places. There're 2500 trees of hydrangea in beautiful colors admired as 'Meigetsuin Blue'. You can meet the beautiful scenery of rainy season, together with the bamboo grove.◎To enjoy seeing and taking pictures of hydrangeas enough, it'll be better for you to visit as soon as Meigetsuin Temple opens, or about one hour before it closes.

World Heritage Including The Gorgeous Yōmei-mon ArchNikko Toshogu Shrine

The most famous thing in Nikko Toshogu Shrine is this Yōmei-mon Arch. It's resistered as a world heritage. This Yomeimon gate has an Edo period architectural style, crafts, sculptures, paintings, and all of the cultures of this age.  

What a Nice Collaboration of the Two! The Sunrise over the Shrine Gate 'Kamiiso Shrine Gate'Oarai Isosaki Shrine

The Kamiiso Shrine is famous as a spiritual place. Because it is on seashore and face to due east, the sunrise view looks mystic and attracts visitors. But it is dependent upon the weather.

Hydrangea Temple In Kamakura! 2500 Trees Of Hydrangea And Lovely Jizo ImagesHase-dera Temple

Myogetsuin Temple is the most famous as a hydrangea temple in Kamakura, but Hase-dera is also a great spot of many hydrangeas. You can enjoy beautiful hydrangeas, and let's try to find smiling Ryoen Jizo images and a big Nagomi Jizo.

Famous Spiritual Power Spot In Kanto Region! Mysterious Torii Gate On the LakeHakone Shrine

A shrine famous for the divine help for money and success in life stands along the Ashino-ko Lake. If the weather is good, you can see the torii and Mt.Fuji together on the lake from the opposite bank.◎Access: To Motohakone by bus, train or ferry. And walk 10 min. Parking lot is available.

Cats! Cats! And More Cats! A Temple As A Birthplace Of Beckoning CatGotoku-ji Temple

Gotokuji Temple is known as a birthplace of Beckoning Cat (Maneki-neko: cat ornament able to bring good lucks together). There're so many Beckoning Cats that had brought lucks and been dedicated back to the temple. I wonder how many lucks they brought! I think I can receive a share of happiness, and it's a must see spot for cat-loving people.◎You can buy Beckoning Cat at a temple office (9:00-17:00). And you're lucky if you can ride or see the Beckoning Cat Train of Tokyu Setagaya Line (nearest station: Miyanosaka), because there's only one train with a illustration of cat.

Wish for Good Luck in the Flower BeltSakura Jingu Shrine

Sakura Jingu Shrine in Sakurashinmachi is a shrine that is beneficial for warding off evil, praying for success, prosperous business, and marriage. Many flower belts with good luck are tied to the Kawazu cherry blossoms and the weeping cherry blossoms in the precincts. The pink cherry tree is more gorgeous.

Hydrangea Raft In An Inner Pond Of Amabiki Kannon TempleAmabiki Kannon Temple

The picked and floated hydrangea on a pond is like otherworldly scene. I like this very beautiful world! They'll change and float hydrangeas till around 7/20. And don't forget to pay homage at a temple, too.

Wind Bell Path Whose Sounds Tell The Begging Of SummerKawagoe Hikawa Shrine

Photos taken on July 6th. The annual summer event 'Enmusubi Furin'. I wore Yukata, and came to Kawagoe on the first day of this event. Waking around the path of wind bells, and feeling the comfortable winds, I felt refreshed so much, though the weather forecast was rainy. You can see the beautiful scenery of green leaves and colorful wind bells.

A Spiritual Power Spot Clear Water Flowing OutMeiji Jingu Shrine

It's a well in the Meiji Jingu Shrine's woods in Tokyo. Here's called the first spiritual power spot. If you set a picture of here as a wallpaper of your phone, you may have a divine grace.

Limited to 7/6-7, Milky Way of CandlesZojoji Temple

The Tanabata Festival at Zōjoji Temple and the candle night of Japanese paper are fantastic and beautiful enough to be seen all the time. The work of turning on the lights one by one is also impressive. Collaboration with Tokyo Tower is also good.

2000 Beautiful Bamboo Named Meng Zong, & Green Tea In This GardenHoukoku-ji Temple

The path in bamboo grove wrapped in quietness. Looking up the bamboo in the sky, there's the play of sunlight through them. They're so beautiful that I want to watch them for a longer time. And, green tea and Japanese sweets to eat with peaceful minds in this garden. You can see also camellia with bamboo till around April.◎Kamakura Station East Gate bus stop No.5. Jomyoji bus stop, walk 3min, Entrance fee: 200yen, green tea and sweets required more 500yen.

Hydrangea Shrine At Tokyo Downtown Colored With 3000 Trees Of HydrangeaHakusan Shrine

Hakusan Shrine is well-known as a hydrangea shrine in Tokyo downtown. In July, about 3000 trees of hydrangea color the precinct beautifully. You must see the hydrangea-surrounding Komainu (a stone guardian dog)!

Volunteer Trees Standing Both Sides Of The Approach From Torii Gate To The Main ShrineSakatsura Isosaki Shrine

The broadleaf trees as old as 300 years old and camellia grow voluntary. This approach is like a tree tunnel, and known as a sacred spiritual power spot. I could get the power.◎East Gate of Katsuta Station of JR Joban Line. 5 min from Isosaki Station of Minato Line. By car, 70 min from Misato IC of Joban Speedway

Senbon Torii & 100 Kinds, 3000 Trees Of Azalea At Nezu ShrineNezu Shrine

Nezu Shrine is celebrated as a spiritual power spot in Tokyo, and 6612 square meters Azalea Garden has been its best. The scenery of Senbon Torii (one thousand torii gates standing in a line) located at the both sides of Otome Inari Shrine in the precinct is one of the best things to see here. Azalea Festival is holding till May 6th.◎Opening hours: 9:00-17:30. Entrance fee: 200yen. Access: 5 min walk from Sendagi Station 1st Gate. I entered from North Torii Gate, and went through Senbon Torii, and arrived Azalea Garden. When I left the shrine, Senbon Torii was crowded with many people. As you expect, the early morning is better. Please check HP to find other ways to visit Azalea Garden. You can look the blooming conditions by live camera. I think it's good for you to visit sooner.

Who Made? Why? A Mysterious Buddha Statue With Many VicissitudesKotokuin

Kamakura's symbol and well-known second statue of Buddha of Kotoku-in. It struck by disasters many times, and there's few materials to know its birth. It attracts us mysteriously.

Elaborate And Colorful Ornaments Carved By Japanese Traditional SculptorsHodosan Shrine

In Nagatoro, Chichibu, Hodosan Shrine has wonderful ornaments made elaborately in fine detail. Here is a very nice destination for cherry blossoms in spring, fresh verdure in summer and colored foliage in autumn.

A Great Writer Also Trained! A Medieval Precinct & Historical Zen MeditationEngaku-ji Temple

This temple, located in quiet North Kamakura, is famous for a great writer Natsume Soseki's visiting. Going through the temple gate which was written in a novel 'Mon 門', the orderly precinct has had the historical atmosphere since the ancient times. They hold various events of Zen meditation, why don't you join?◎Entrance Fee: adult 300yen child 100yen Access: 1min walk from Kitakamakura Station of JR Yokosuka Line. Zen meditation for dawn, Saturdays, Sundays and students.

Surrounded With Mountains, One Of The Great Shrines In Kanto RegionMitsumine Shrine

1 hour drive from Chichibu city. Mitsumine Shrine is surrounded with deep forest. After you find the huge trees, clear air, and fantastic atmosphere, gorgeous vermilion Nio-mon Gate and a shrine will appear. Because it has been a spiritual place since the old time, our mind must be washed away by the power and beauty of nature.◎Access: bus is available from Seibu Chichibu Station and Mitsumine Yamaguchi Station. You can get white lucky charm 'Kisyu' on only 1st day of every month. The nearest IC is Hanazono of Kan'etsu Speedway