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Oji-jinja Shrine

4.0

74 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Kita-ku Oujihonchou 1-1-12

A Shinto shrine located in Ojihon-cho, Kita City, Tokyo. The shrine is dedicated to Izanagi no Mikoto and four other principal Shinto gods termed the Oji Okami. The majority of the grounds were destroy during the war but were rebuilt as part of post-war recovery activities. A large gingko tree on the grounds avoided being damaged by the war and is designated a Natural Monument by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Seki-jinja Shrine, a subordinate ancestor shrine on the shrine's grounds, is said to provide aid to those seeking help with their hair as well as music and other performing arts.

Small but a steady stream of visitors ringing the bell. There was an amazing golden shrine on display behind glass. A nice, peaceful area for a few minutes.
Toyo Bunko Museum

4.0

97 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Bunkyo-ku Hon-komagome 2-28-21

三菱財閥が収集してきた東洋学関連古書の図書館である。学究の徒でもない限り、それらを閲覧することはまずなかろうという和洋中の膨大な数の文献を所蔵している。図書館機能だけの施設なら行くこともないのだが、美術品の企画展もやることあるので、機会あれば行ってみようかと思っていた。で、上京の折、時間ができたので初訪問した。やってた企画展は「シルクロードの旅展」。美術展ではないけど、高校で日本史取らず世...
Oji Inari-jinja Shrine

4.0

45 Reviews

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Tokyo Kita-ku Kishimachi 1-12-26

A Shinto shrine located in Kishi-machi, Kita City. This shrine serves as the head shrine for all Inari (fox god) shrines in the Kanto region. According to legend, on New Year's Eve, foxes from around Japan gather here under a tree, and, after making themselves presentable, make their first shrine visit of the new year. The famed woodblock print artist Hiroshige even depicted this event in one of his works. The Oji Fox Parade, held at the end of the year since 1993, imitates this legend, and has now become a local seasonal feature.

祭神宇迦之御魂神（うかのみたまのかみ）宇気母智之神（うけもちのかみ）和久産巣日神（わくむすびのかみ）宇気母智之神と和久産巣日神はダブりではないか？関東の稲荷の総本社の一つ。境内にいくつもの稲荷社があるが、何稲荷か不明。何処かに案内があったか？「王子」の謂れは紀州熊野。参道横に市杵島姫が祀られており、当社の大元はここではないかと思われる。ご婦人方がウォーキングツアーで来ていたの...
Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation Museum

4.0

40 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Kita-ku Nishigahara 2-16-1

北区王子の「飛鳥山公園」にある「渋沢史料館」についての情報を発信していきます。「渋沢史料館」を訪れたのは2023年6月1日です。「渋沢史料館」へのアクセスは、JR京浜東北線「王子駅」中央口の出口を出て、「本郷通り」を左方向に500ｍほど直進すると三つ目の信号のところに「飛鳥山公園」へ通じる階段が左手にあります。その階段を上ると右手に「紙の博物館」があり、その隣に「北区飛鳥山博物館」、さらに奥に「渋...
Paper Museum

4.0

61 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Kita-ku Oji 1-1-3

This museum had a antastic overview of the history, making and uses of paper, both in Japan and around the world. We spent a rainy afternoon poring over the exhibits, with the aid of a English...
Shinshoji Temple

3.5

59 Reviews

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Tokyo Toshima-ku Sugamo 3-21-21

2021年11月6日-14日迄開催されている《第29回すがも中山道菊まつり（添付写真参照）》にて 3ケ所が会場になっておりこちら[眞性寺]はその一つになっています。[巣鴨地蔵通り商店街]をこの期間に訪問する機会あれば立ち寄られることをお薦めします。参道沿いに菊花が展示され、江戸六地蔵中4番目、巡拝3番目である《銅造地蔵菩薩坐像（像高：2.68 m 台座含み...
Kita Asukayama Museum

3.5

34 Reviews

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Tokyo Kita-ku Oji 1-1-3

北区王子の「飛鳥山公園」にある「北区飛鳥山博物館」についての情報を発信していきます。「北区飛鳥山博物館」を訪れたのは2023年6月1日です。「紙の博物館」へのアクセスは、JR京浜東北線「王子駅」中央口の出口を出て、「本郷通り」を左方向に500ｍほど直進すると三つ目の信号のところに「飛鳥山公園」へ通じる階段が左手にあります。その階段を上ると右手に「紙の博物館」があり、その隣に「北区飛鳥山博物館」があ...
Taisho University Sugamo Odai Kannondo

4.0

27 Reviews

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Tokyo Toshima-ku Nishisugamo 3-20-1

A Buddhist cultural facility built on the campus of Taisho University in 2013, the Sugamo Odai Kannondo embodies the school's founding philosophy based on Mahayana Buddhism--the practicing of wisdom and compassion. Take special note of the Heart Sutra written in Sanskrit on the wall of ascending steps on the outside of the facility, the Odai Kannon statue, and a painting by Hiroshi Senju entitled Taki (Waterfall).

大正大学のお隣には、”すがも鴨台観音堂”（通称：さざえ堂）があるんです。巻き貝のさざえに似ていることから「鴨台さざえ堂」の愛称で呼ばれています。「すがも鴨台（おうだい）観音堂」堂内の階段を登り下りすると、巡礼が叶う、という構造になっている...
Entsuji Temple

3.5

26 Reviews

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Tokyo Arakawa-ku Minami-senju 1-59-11

A five-minute walk from Minowa Station on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line. Records state this Soto Buddhist temple was established in 791 by shogun and general Sakanoue no Tamuramaro. In the Edo period, it was known as one of the Three Temples of Shitaya along with the Kotokuji Temple in Shitaya and the Kishimojin in Iriya. The temple became connected to the Boshin War when it held a memorial service for the Shogitai samurai who fought the armed forces of the new government at the Battle of Ueno in 1868; thereafter, in 1907, the Kaneiji temple's Ueno Kuromon (Black Gate), which became the center of the fighting in Ueno, was moved here to this temple. The gate is pockmarked with bullet holes, an indication of the intensity of the battle which took place.

仏塔と観音像が合体したような寺院の建築はなかなかのアバンギャルドさでした。境内には上野寛永寺から移設された黒門が残されており、こちらは文化財として見ものと思います。
Kogan-ji Temple (Togenuki Jizoson)

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Tokyo Toshima-ku Sugamo 3-35-2

This Soto Buddhist temple is popularly called the Togenuki Jizoson. A statue of the bodhisattva Kshitigarbha, donated by a man in prayer for his wife’s recovery from illness after childbirth, is the temple’s principle object of worship. Legend has it that when a piece of paper with an image of the bodhisattva was floated on a river, his wife was healed. Based on this legend, it is said that affixing a piece of washi paper with the statue’s image imprinted on it sold at the temple to an injured area will hill the injury. A bronze statue called the “Washing Kannon” also stands on the temple grounds which is believed to cure illness.
Honmyoji Temple

3.5

11 Reviews

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Tokyo Toshima-ku Sugamo 5-35-6

This is an annex of Honjo Temple, the grand head temple of the Hokke sect, located about a ten-minute walk away from Sugamo Station. Originally built in 1571 in Sunpu (modern-day Shizuoka), it was later moved to Shimizu Gate when the Tokugawa government took hold in Edo Castle. Then in 1657, it was associated with the start of the Great fire of Meireki, which burned down a large portion of Edo. There is a memorial tower located there now, as well as a tomb for the late Edo-era swordsman Chiba Shusaku, and tomb for Toyama Kagemoto, a noted samurai official Toyama no Kin-san. There are also tombs for one of the grand Go master, Honinbo, and other noted figures.

こちらは、徳栄山総持院と号し、法華宗陣門流総本山本成寺の別院だそうです。山門・本堂がとても立派でした。ここには千葉周作、遠山金四郎が眠っていました。
Susanoo-jinja Shrine

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Arakawa-ku Minamisenju 6-60-1

An ancient urban Shinto shrine, Susanoo-jinja Shrine was founded more than 1,200 years ago in 795. The shrine is dedicated to the gods Susanoo Okami and Asuka Okami. The shrine is the patron shrine of 61 neighborhoods, the largest area covered by a single shrine in Arakawa City, including the neighborhoods of Minamisenju, Minowa, Mikawashima, and Machiya. Locally, the shrine is affectionately known as Otenno-sama. Some of the shrine's points of interest include the curious Zuikoseki stone, which resulted in the shrine being founded; a gingko tree believed to aid in childrearing which is said to have cured a mother unable to produce milk after she drank a tea made from the tree's boiled bark and hung an ema votive tablet on it; and a monument inscribed with a haiku by master poet Matsuo Basho from his famous The Narrow Road to Oku (designated a Cultural Property by the city). The highlight of the shrine's Tenno-sai festival in June (designated an Intangible Folk-Cultural Property by the city) is an exciting event in which a portable shrine carried on the shoulders of men with just two stout poles is rocked violently from side to side, almost losing control and crashing into the ground with each sway.
Sekiunji Temple

3.0

2 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Arakawa-ku Nishiogu 2-25-21

"A Soto Buddhist temple located a one-minute walk from the Miyanomae stop on the Toden Arakawa Line. Founded in 1596, the temple was originally built in Honjoishiwara-cho and was moved to its current location in the early modern Taisho era. The year after the Oji train line connecting Asukayama and Minowa was opened in the area in 1913, the temple's chief priest discovered a hot spring on the grounds and it began operating a bathhouse called the Tera no Yu (""Temple Bathhouse""), later changed to the Furokaku (""Palace of Eternal Youth""). Though this bathhouse has long-since been closed, at the time, it marked the start of a boom in the leisure industry in the Ogu area, with shopping arcades and hot spring inns popping up one after another, and thus today the temple is also famous as the site of this former bathhouse."

荒川区西尾久にあるお寺。特に見所もないお寺ではあるけどここにはかつて鉱泉が湧き出ており、周辺にはいくつもの温泉宿があった場所。料理屋、芸妓屋、待合の三業が栄えた遊興地であった場所として辛うじて残る名残の地です。
Nankoku-ji Temple

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Bunkyou-ku Honkomagome 1-20-20

Believed to have been founded in the Genna period (1615-1624) by the priest Mangyo, this Buddhist temple is located in an area with many shrines, temples, and schools. The temple was moved to its current location in the mid-Edo period and since that time has been regarded as one of the Five Color Fudo Temples of Edo as well as number 13 of the 36 Fudo Temples of the Kanto Region.
Otani Art Museum

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Kita-ku Nishigahara 1-27-39 In the old Furukawa garden

A Western-style mansion a 12 minute walk from Komagome Station. This stone structure was called the Kyu Furukawa-tei. It was designed by English architect Josiah Conder, who also designed the iconic Rokumeikan. The main building has two floors aboveground and one below. The first floor is decorated in Western style while every room except the bedroom on the second floor is a traditional Japanese room, and the residence skillfully blends Japanese and Western tastes. The simple and solemn exterior resembles the architecture of Scottish and English country villas. A guided tour is provided in the museum and takes approximately one hour. The garden is famed for its roses; from mid-May to mid-June and from mid-October to late November are the best times to see them. Viewing and touring the museum requires a reservation to be made by a postcard with a reply card attached.
Togakuji Temple

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Kita-ku Tabata 2-7-3

A Buddhist Temple located in 2 Chome, Tabata, Kita City. People go here to paste special red paper to the corresponding body parts of the stone Kongo Rikishi statues where they are injured or sick and pray to be healed. This is known as Red Paper Nioh.
Eko-in Temple

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Tokyo Arakawa-ku Minami-senju 5-33-13

"A monument to ""Kaitai Shinsho"" (The New Text on Demolition) is also located here, as Genpaku Sugita and others were present during the autopsies of the executed."
Kozukappara Execution Grounds

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Tokyo Arakawa-ku Minami-senju 2-34-5

"A three-minute walk from JR Minami-Senju Station. This former execution site, in use from the Edo period through the early Meiji period, was counted among the three execution grounds along with the Suzugamori Execution Grounds and the Owada Execution Grounds. Today, the former execution grounds are a part of the grounds of the Jodo-sect Enmeiji Temple and a Jizo (Kshitigarbha) statue, called the Enmeiji Jizo and nicknamed the ""Beheading Jizo,"" is enshrined on the site. The gravesites of Mito Roushi (samurai), who was involved in the Sakuradamon Incident; and Yoshida Shoin, who was executed in the Ansei Purge, are also located here (although today only the gravestones remain). As scholar Sugita Genpaku, who conducted dissections on executed prisoners, also attended the executions held on the site, a memorial to his medical text the ""Kaitai shinsho"" has also been erected here."
dokuritugyoseihojinkokurituinsatukyoku osatutokitteno Museum

4.0

49 Reviews

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Tokyo Kita-ku Ouji 1-chome 6-1

国立印刷局王子工場の隣にある無料の施設。お札と切手の歴史、印刷技術、世界の珍しい紙幣と切手、などの展示がある。世界最古の紙幣は中国で作られたことなど勉強になるし、正方形や縦長の紙幣、世界最大の切手など、珍しいものがいろいろ見られて結構楽しい。
Kichijoji Temple

4.0

34 Reviews

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Tokyo Bunkyo-ku Hon-komagome 3-19-17

目線で楽しめ見応えありです。座ってのんびりとはいきませんが、混み合っていないので写真を撮ったりゆっくり鑑賞出来る穴場。

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