Built in 1920, this revered Shinto shrine in Tokyo sees around 3 million visitors every year. Despite this, it's an oasis of calm surrounded by 100,000 trees.

Visits to the shrine by senior Japanese political figures have drawn criticism from countries such as South Korea, which was under Tokyo’s colonial rule for 35 years, and China, which Japan invaded.

Glance around the grounds and listen to discover that not only devout followers and tourists congregate at shrines and temples in central Tokyo. Shrines, temples and historic parks have a richer ...

Tokyo’s Kameido Tenjin Shrine is famous for its wisteria flowers, and with good reason – the shrine has over 50 wisteria trees, which usually reach their flowering peak between mid-April and ...

A shrine in Tokyo is dedicated to a deity believed to control the weather. For three days in fall, a season of fickle weather in Japan, we asked people why they wanted divine help for sunny skies.