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120 places(showing 1–24)
Tokyo
Tokyo oldest temple, fronted by the lantern-lit Nakamise shopping street.
A serene forest shrine in the heart of the city, dedicated to Emperor Meiji.
Kyoto
Thousands of vermilion torii gates winding up a sacred mountain.
A three-storey pavilion sheathed in gold leaf, mirrored in a still reflecting pond — Kyoto's most iconic sight.
A hillside temple with a vast wooden veranda over the maple valley.
Nara
Home to Japan largest bronze Buddha in a colossal wooden hall.
A refined Zen retreat with a moss garden and a cone of raked silver sand.
Japan's most famous Zen rock garden — fifteen stones in raked gravel.
Arashiyama's top temple, with a borrowed-scenery pond garden by the mountains.
A grand Zen complex with a towering gate and a photogenic brick aqueduct.
A 120-metre hall lined with 1,001 golden statues of Kannon.
Home to Japan's tallest wooden pagoda, five storeys against the Kyoto sky.
Gion's guardian shrine, gateway to Maruyama Park's cherry blossoms.
A bright vermilion shrine fronted by a giant torii gate.
Kyoto's greatest autumn temple — a valley of maples viewed from a wooden bridge.
A tranquil garden temple with giant camphor trees and evening illuminations.
The Tokugawa family temple beneath Tokyo Tower, home to the oldest wooden gate in the city.
A 300-year-old shrine famous for its tunnel of red torii gates and springtime azalea hillside.
The tranquil 'lucky cat' temple in Setagaya where hundreds of white maneki-neko sit stacked in prayer.
Akihabara's 1,300-year-old guardian shrine, patron of merchants, prosperity and — today — technology.
The shogun's protective shrine in Nagatacho, ringed by skyscrapers and a hidden red torii staircase.
Tokyo's shrine of scholarship, wreathed in plum blossom and students' exam prayers each February.
The Zen temple where Japan's legendary 47 Ronin are buried beside the lord they died to avenge.
A retro shitamachi temple of jaw-dropping wood carvings, reached down a nostalgic old sweet-shop street.
