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Established by Ota Dokan in 1466 — every soldier who carried its amulet in WWII reportedly returned safely, and the shrine itself miraculously survived the 1945 Tokyo air raids, making it Nihonbashi's famed shrine of extraordinary fortune.

The Tsukiji Edo residence granted to the Tosa Yamauchi clan in 1826 — where lord Yamauchi Yodo lodged and bakumatsu heroes Sakamoto Ryoma, Takechi Hanpeita and Okada Izo gathered.

Founded in Asakusa in 1617, destroyed in the 1657 Great Fire of Meireki, rebuilt on reclaimed sea land 'Tsukiji' in 1659 — the present Indian-and-West-Asian-inspired main hall, designed by Ito Chuta after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, is the Jodo Shinshu Honganji-ha Tokyo Betsuin.

A Fudo Myoo statue said to have survived Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 1585 attack on Negoro — counted among Japan's three great Fudo, the setting of the rakugo tale 'Megumi no Kenka,' and a monthly market on the 28th still draws crowds.

Founded 1773 and famed as 'Dignity of Momonoi' — one of the Three Great Bakumatsu Edo Dojo where Tosa Loyalists Takechi Hanpeita and Okada Izo honed their Kyoshin Meichi-ryu swordsmanship.

Said to have been founded in 841, one of Chuo Ward's oldest shrines — the sole surviving fuji-zuka mound in the ward (a designated tangible folk cultural property) and the annual January cold-water purification rite preserve its long traditions.

Nihonbashi's mother-and-child shrine — famed for Inu-no-hi safe-birth prayers

Ieyasu's 1603 bridge became the origin of all five great highways — the current 1911 stone twin-arch bridge carries the last shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu's calligraphy, and the embedded 'Kilometer Zero' marker measures all national highway distances from here.

In 1612 the Tokugawa shogunate relocated its silver mint 'Ginza Yakusho' from Sunpu to this site — a monument at Ginza 2-chome marks the origin of the place-name that became the world-famous 'GINZA' brand.

Sakamoto Ryoma entered this dojo in 1853 for swordsmanship training and received the Hokushin Itto-ryu naginata mokuroku in 1858 — the Okemachi Chiba Dojo where the bakumatsu hero came of age as a swordsman.