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Founded by Ashikaga Takauji in 1335 as the Musashi Ankokuji, with Benkei's inkstone well still in the precincts

Founded in the Daido era on the Fuchu bluff overlooking the Tama River — a center of Fuji-ko confraternity pilgrimage

One of the oldest temples in the Tama region, tracing to 740 CE — Edo stone Buddhas line this Tama 88-temple pilgrimage site

Within Okunitama Shrine's precincts, this ancient sanctuary preserves the ritual space where Musashi governors prayed upon taking office

Built on Admiral Togo's former villa in 1939, its weeping cherry gate is said to have inspired Kurosawa's film 'Rashomon'

A candidate for the first-rank shrine of Musashi Province, listed in the Engishiki and enshrining the ancient deity Amekashima by the Tama River

Tendai temple opened by Gyoki, once the administrative temple of Okunitama Shrine during the era of Shinto-Buddhist syncretism

Chief shrine of Musashi Province founded in 111 CE — one of Tokyo's five grand shrines, its torchlit Kurayami festival is a Tokyo Intangible Folk Cultural Property

Tokyo's Tama Cemetery, opened in 1923 — Nitobe Inazo, who died in Canada, rests here alongside Mishima Yukio and other luminaries of modern Japanese culture

Kamakura-era Shingon temple on the Tama plateau, with medieval stone monuments and a Kukai pilgrimage designation