Tokyo Dai-jingū

Kōrakuen & Akihabara


This is the Tokyo branch of Ise-jingū, Japan's mother shrine in Mie Prefecture. Credited with establishing the Shintō wedding ritual, Tokyo Dai-jingū is a popular pilgrimage site for young Tokyoites hoping to get hitched and does a brisk business in marriage charms.

Transportation

  • train: JR Sōbu line to Iidabashi, west exit

Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Kōrakuen & Akihabara attractions

1. Yūshū-kan

0.37 MILES

Most history museums in Japan skirt the issue of WWII or focus on the burden of the common people. Not so here: Yūshū-kan begins with Japan's samurai…

2. Tayasu-mon

0.39 MILES

Dating from 1635, the northern gate to Kitanomaru-kōen was once part of Edo-jō and is designated as a national important cultural asset.

3. National Shōwa Memorial Museum

0.39 MILES

This museum of WWII-era Tokyo gives a sense of everyday life for the common people: how they ate, slept, dressed, studied, prepared for war and endured…

4. Koishikawa Kōrakuen

0.43 MILES

Established in the mid-17th century as the property of the Tokugawa clan, this formal strolling garden incorporates elements of Chinese and Japanese…

5. Yasukuni-jinja

0.43 MILES

Literally ‘For the Peace of the Country Shrine’, Yasukuni is the memorial shrine to Japan’s war dead, around 2.5 million souls. First built in 1869, it is…

6. Mizuma Art Gallery

0.47 MILES

Run by longtime Tokyo art-world figure Sueo Mizuma, Mizuma Art Gallery represents some of Japan's more successful contemporary artists, such as Aida…

7. Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum

0.52 MILES

How did baseball come to be a Japanese obsession? This museum chronicles baseball’s rise from a hobby imported by an American teacher in 1872 to the…

8. Chidori-ga-fuchi

0.58 MILES

This section of the moat surrounding the Imperial Palace is one of the city's most popular hanami (cherry blossom viewing) spots. There's a 700m-long…

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