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An ancient shrine on Mount Asahi said to trace to Yamato Takeru's eastern campaign — venerated as the chief guardian shrine of Mito

Founded in 1873 adjacent to Kairakuen — a Meiji-era shrine honoring Mitsukuni and Nariaki, the hub of Mito's celebrated spring plum festival

Main hall built in 1573 is a National Important Cultural Property; the 800-year-old Ohatsuki Ginkgo with fruit on its leaves is a National Natural Monument

A shrine founded in the reign of Emperor Tenmu with a divided spirit from Kamigamo Shrine — revered for lightning protection and bountiful harvests under Mito domain patronage

A garden loved by Tokugawa Mitsukuni, home to Kaiten Shrine enshrining 874 Tengu-to loyalists and the Keigan-ji temple revered for safe childbirth

A shrine enshrining Mitsukuni 'Mito Komon' and Nariaki the Kodokan founder — the Giretsu-kan museum within exhibits Mito domain treasures

Stronghold of the Satake clan, then seat of the Mito Tokugawa — one of the Three Houses of the Edo shogunate — at the heart of Mito's history

One of Japan's largest domain schools, founded by Nariaki in 1841 and designated a Special National Historic Site; bullet holes from the 1864 Tengu-to Uprising still mark its walls

A Kashima shrine established by Nariaki within the Kodokan domain school as its guardian — a martial deity embodying the spirit of literary and martial excellence

One of the few surviving structures of Mito Castle, having outlasted the castle-abolition order and wartime air raids — the last echo of Edo-period Mito Castle