Best places: Shinto shrines in Minato, Japan

Lantern-filled temple complex with shrines & statues, including hundreds of Shinto fox deities.

Steep stairway framed by a red torii gate & stone lions that leads to a shrine with a carp pond.

Tranquil Shinto temple precinct at a general's residence founded in 1923 & restored after WWII.

Restored Shinto site founded in 1005, with woodblock art & a renowned yearly festival.

👍👍 First time visiting this historic site in Japan so much history behind these walls...

👍 品川駅の高輪口を出て第一京浜を高輪ゲートウェイ駅方面に向かうとこの神社がある。 第一京浜沿いで高輪ゲートウェイ駅からも近いが、鳥居からの入口が狭いので、見落としてしまう。 階段を登り境内もあまり広くないが、厳かな雰囲気。 参拝し御朱印も頂ける。

👍 If you are lucky, you can meet a cute beckoning cat 🐾 It is a shrine behind Roppongi 1-chome with a small park.

👍 Deities enshrined: Shiotoshiroo-kami, Takemikazuchi-kami, Tsunetsu-nushi-kami It was founded by Date Tsunamura, the fourth lord of the Sendai domain, in 1695, when he invited a branch spirit of Ichinomiya Shiogama Daimyojin in Mutsu Province from its main shrine to the domain residence in Shiodome,...