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Tenmangu shrine founded in the mid-Heian period as a subsidiary of Katsushika Hachimangu, filled with exam-success votive tablets every entrance-exam season

Ancient shrine founded in the Engi era by transferring the Kasuga deity from Nara, a site of warrior devotion and prayers for safe passage on the Tone River

Ancient temple founded by Gyoki on the storied land of Mama sung in the Man'yoshu, where a 400-year-old weeping cherry tree colors spring

Hall founded in the Nara era to console the spirit of tragic Tekona immortalized in the Man'yoshu, later visited by Matsuo Basho

Head temple of the Nichiren sect founded on the first site of his preaching, with a Muromachi-period five-story pagoda among the oldest in the Kanto region

Shrine said to originate from the spot where Minamoto no Yoritomo raised his white battle flag in 1180, near the ancient Shimosa provincial seat

Grand head temple of the Nichiren sect at Nakayama, housing the National Treasure Rissho Ankokuron manuscript and hosting the grueling 100-day winter ascetic practice each year

Chief guardian of Shimosa Province founded in 889 by imperial decree, where Yoritomo prayed for victory, with a 1,200-year-old ginkgo as National Natural Monument

Ancient temple founded by Kukai in 820 near the Shimosa provincial seat, housing a Heian-period Yakushi Nyorai that survived the battles of Kokufudai

Ancient temple founded in 741 near the Shimosa provincial seat, whose Yakushi Nyorai drew travelers and local people in prayers for healing throughout the Edo period