Best places: Religions 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.

👍👍 Truly is the House of the Lord. I have felt the most peace and happiness and clarity in the Temple more than anywhere else on earth. Through the temple, we can have eternal families!!

The main temple of Jōdo-shū Buddhism, this compound includes ornate buildings dating to the 1600s.

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

Buddhist temple & pilgrimage site featuring the graves of the legendary 47 Rōnin samurai.

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

Government-run cemetery with Japanese & foreign sections, also renowned for its cherry blossoms.

👍👍 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。

👍 A Jodo sect temple located near the Omotesando intersection. This temple is descended from the famous Zenkoji Temple in Shinshu. It was apparently moved to its current location in the 18th century. It is located a few minutes walk from Omotesando intersection, In such a quiet environment that the h...

👍 Off the beaten track. It is a hidden gem: clean, fabulous and almost unknown to tourists. Highly recommended!

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

👍👍 Thanks for this prayer room. Initially quite confuse to find this place. So i hope this guide can help other Muslims to find it. 1. Find the Decks or Joypolis Mall 2. Choose 5th floor of Seaside Mall (dont go to Island Mall) 3. Find the nursing station & smoking room- the prayer room just beside it...

👍 A temple of the Nanzenji sect of the Rinzai sect, founded in 1619 in the early Edo period. Konchi-in is a subsidiary temple of Nanzen-ji Temple in Kyoto, and because Suden Ishin served as the chief priest, it was also called Konchi-in in Edo. As a political advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu, he was known a...

👍👍 I am a reform Jew, but always feel welcome at this Chabad in Tokyo, and try to spend as much time as possible there.

👍👍 I have been visiting graves here with my family since I was in kindergarten. I'm already 60 years old, but every time I go there, memories come back to me. When I was a child, I would take the Toden from Shibuya to Tengenji, and on the way home, my relatives and I would go to a soba restaurant acros...

👍👍 One of the best power spots in Tokyo located in Shiba Park No. 19 Momiji Valley. It is said to have strong spiritual powers that bring good fortune in money and work, and when I have visited several times, the offerings have changed, and they have been cleaned beautifully, so many people love them....

👍 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,...