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Tokyo's top exam-passing shrine — famed for 300 plum trees and ema prayers

A renowned Jodo temple founded in 1415, rebuilt by Ieyasu in honor of his mother Odai-no-kata — the graves of shogunal princesses including Senhime remain in this Koishikawa sanctuary

One of Tokyo's Ten Sacred Shrines founded in 948 — the June 'Bunkyo Ajisai Matsuri' turns its 3,000 hydrangeas into one of the city's defining rainy-season floral spectacles

Founded in 1681 by Shogun Tsunayoshi for his mother Keishōin — the 1697 Kannon-dō hall that survived the WWII air raids is one of Tokyo's rarest intact Edo structures, designated a National Important Cultural Property

A strolling garden begun in 1629 by the Mito Tokugawa clan and completed by Mitsukuni — dual-designated Special Historic Site and Scenic Beauty, its name 'Korakuen' derives from a Song-dynasty Confucian maxim

One of Tokyo's Ten Shrines built by Shogun Tsunayoshi in 1706 — the complete Gongen-zukuri hall complex is a National Important Cultural Property, and 3,000 azaleas blaze through April–May

Founded 1624 and nicknamed 'Konnyaku Emma' — the clouded right eye of the Enma statue, which absorbed an elderly woman's ailment, and the July Enma Festival preserve Edo popular faith in Koishikawa

An Inari shrine on the Hongo plateau close to Kanda Myojin and Yushima Seido — votive tablets for academic success fill the grounds during examination season

A guardian shrine on the hill above the outer moat and Kanda River — venerated for warding off misfortune and maritime safety in the Iidabashi-Koishikawa area

The Komagome temple whose displaced parishioners founded 'Kichijoji Village' — origin of the famous Musashino city name