Best Architecture Spot List

A convention and art center built as a comprehensive cultural information dissemination base.

The oldest Buddhist temple in Tokyo best known by the Kaminarimon Gate is one of the must-visit places in Tokyo. On Nakamise Street, you can enjoy souvenir shopping and snack-joint hopping.

Shingon Sect Temple in Setagaya, Tokyo. Tamagawa 88 Sacred Sites. Kanto Sacred Site consisting of temples for 33 Bokefuji Kannon Pilgrimage.

“I have come to this land and my heart is sugasugashi (refreshed).” Suga Shrine is the tutelary shrine of 18 towns in Yotsuya, Tokyo.

Wish upon the matchmaking deity for success in love

Benzaiten, one of the seven lucky gods of Asakusa, is enshrined, and is said to bring benefits such as business success

A temple of the Nichiren sect on Mt. Ogura in Sagano. It is well-known for ”Hyakunin Isshu” (a collection of 100 poems by 100 different poets). In autumn, the nearby mountains awash with brilliant red leaves.

A temple associated with Heian-era poet Ariwara no Narihara

The head shrine of all the Kasuga-jinja shrines all over Japan, it is located on Mt. Mikasa, which has been treated as a sacred area since ancient times. In 2018, the shrine commemorated its 1,250th anniversary.

Yamate 234 Ban-Kan, or the Yamate #234 Residence, is a Western-style mansion that served as an apartment building for foreign residents. The panel exhibits displayed on the first floor tell the history of the building.

The first of 33 temples on the Saigoku Kannon Pilgrimage, Seiganto-ji is an ever-popular destination for worshipers

Having many children themselves, rabbits symbolize safe child-rearing here

Komagata Bridge on the Sumida River is 150 meters long and has over 80 years of history.

A shrine for a popular matchmaking deity and associated with the puppet play “Sonezaki Shinju”

Hakone Sekisho is an impressive reproduction of an Edo Period sekisho on the banks of Lake Ashi. It is as if you've slipped back in time to the Edo Period.

It is a convention and art center built to disseminate comprehensive cultural information.

A temple located in the holy mountain of Kurama in Kyoto. Minamoto no Yoshitsune is said to have trained here, and visitors can feel the vibrant energy of nature and the universe.

Renowned for its famous Somei spring water and bush clover flowers

Kudo-no-kami, the god of the kitchen, is enshrined here

The homeland of a goddess at Ise Grand Shrine, located in the old Tango Province