Best Shrines And Temples In Kanto
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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.
Name
Senso-ji Temple
Address
2-3-1 Asakusa, Taito-ku, TokyoGoogle Map
Tel
03-3842-0181
Hours
6:00-17:00
Fee
Adult 0 yen、Child 0 yen
How to get there
5 min walk from Asakusa Station. By car or taxi, 30 min from Shinagawa Station, 20 min from Tokyo Station or 50 min from Hanada Airport.
Parking
Nearby toll parking area is available

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.
Name
Meigetsuin Temple
Address
189 Yamanouchi, Kamakura-shi, KanagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0467-24-3437
Hours
9:00-16:00
How to get there
10 min walk from Kitakamakura Station. 7 min by bus from Kamakura Station to Meigetsuin Temple. No parking area.
Parking
No parking area

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.
Name
Nikko Toshogu Shrine
Address
2301 Sannai, Nikko-shi, TochigiGoogle Map
Tel
0288-54-0560
Hours
8:00-17:00,8:00-16:00
How to get there
Parking
Parking area is available

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.
Name
Oarai Isosaki Shrine
Address
6890 Isohama-cho Oarai-machi, , Higashiibaraki-gun, IbarakiGoogle Map
Tel
029-267-2637
How to get there
Bus:15min from Oarai Station, get off at 'Oarai Isosaki Shrine'. Car: 15min from Mito Oarai IC
Parking
Parking area is available

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.
Name
Hase-dera Temple
Address
3-11-2 Hase, Kamakura-shi, KanagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0467-22-6300
Hours
8:00-17:00
How to get there
5 min walk from Hase Station of Enoden. 5 min walk from JR Hasekan'non Station. By car, 50 min from Yokohama city. Toll parking area is available.
Parking
Toll parking area is available

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.
Name
Hakone Shrine
Address
80-1 Motohakone Hakone-machi, Ashigarashimo-gun, KanagawaGoogle Map
How to get there

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.
Name
Gotoku-ji Temple
Address
2-24-7 Gotoku-ji, Setagaya-ku, TokyoGoogle Map
Hours
6:00-18:00
How to get there
12min walk from Gotokuji Station of Odakyu Line, or 5 min walk from Miyanosaka Staion of Tokyu Setagaya Line.

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.
Name
Sakura Jingu Shrine
Address
3-21-3, Shin-machi, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, JapanGoogle Map
Tel
03-3429-0869
How to get there
2 min walk, from Sakurashinmachi Station.

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.
Name
Amabiki Kannon Temple
Address
1 Motogi, Sakuragawa-shi, IbarakiGoogle Map
How to get there
20 min by bus from JR Iwase Station to Amabiki Kannon. By car or taxi, 10 min from JR Iwase Station, or 50 min from Mito city. Parking area is available.
Parking
Parking area is available

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.
Name
Kawagoe Hikawa Shrine
Address
2-11-3 Miyashita-machi, Kawagoe-shi, SaitamaGoogle Map
Tel
049-224-0589
How to get there
10 min by bus from JR Kawagoe Station to the shrine. By car, 40 min from Saitama city.
Parking
Parking area is available

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.
Name
Meiji Jingu Shrine
Address
1-1 Yoyogikamizono-cho, Shibuya-ku, TokyoGoogle Map
Tel
03-3379-9281
Hours
5:00-18:00
How to get there
3 min walk from Harajuku Station. By car or taxi, 25 min from Shinagawa Station, 25 min from Tokyo Station, or 45 min from Haneda Airport.
Parking
Parking area is available

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.
Name
Zojoji Temple
Address
4-7-35 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, TokyoGoogle Map
Tel
03-3432-1431
Hours
9:00-17:00
How to get there

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.
Name
Houkoku-ji Temple
Address
2-7-4 Jomyoji, Kamakura-shi, KanagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0467-22-0762
Hours
9:00-16:00
How to get there
By car, 10min from Asahina IC, 7min from Kamakura Station. By bus, 8min from Kamakura Station, get off at 'Jomyoji Temple', then walk 3min.

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)!
Name
Hakusan Shrine
Address
5-31-26 Hakusan, Bunkyo-ku, TokyoGoogle Map
How to get there
2 min walk from Hakusan Shrine of Mita Subway Line. 7 min walk from Komagome Station of Namboku Subway Line. 3 min walk from Hakusan Bus Stop.

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
Name
Sakatsura Isosaki Shrine
Address
4607-2 Isozaki-cho, Hitachinaka-shi, IbarakiGoogle Map
How to get there
10 min walk from Isazaki Station. By car, 10 min from Hitachi Kaihin Koen IC (Hitachi Seaside Park IC).
Parking
Free parking area is available

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.
Name
Nezu Shrine
Address
1-28-9 Nezu, Bunkyo-ku, TokyoGoogle Map
How to get there
5 min walk from Nezu Station of Chiyoda Line, Sendagi Station, and Todai-mae Station

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.
Name
Kotokuin
Address
4-2-28 Hase, Kamakura-shi, KanagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0467-22-0703
Hours
8:00-17:30
How to get there

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.
Name
Engaku-ji Temple
Address
409 Yamanouchi, Kamakura-shi, KanagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0467-22-0478
Hours
8:00-16:30
How to get there

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
Name
Mitsumine Shrine
Address
298-1 Mitumine, Chichibu-shi, SaitamaGoogle Map