Tenkai's temple guarding Edo's demon gate — burial site of six Tokugawa shoguns on Ueno hill

Founded in 1610 by order of Shogun Hidetada, this Jodo-shu temple served travelers on the Nikko highway's Senju post-town—Edo-period stone Buddhas still line its precincts.

Founded in 595, predating Senso-ji — a sanctuary of marital harmony where daikon and purses are offered

Birthplace of the maneki-neko and love-binding shrine where Okita Soji spent his final days

A Pure Land temple founded around 1600, whose graveyard preserves merchants' and headmen's tombs from prosperous Atsugi-juku

Guardian of Senso-ji built by shogun Iemitsu, famous for the Sanja Matsuri's hundred mikoshi

Founded in 1667 next to Kozukappara execution ground — Sugita Genpaku performed an anatomy here in 1771, founding the 'Kaitai Shinsho,' and grave markers of Ansei Purge martyrs including Yoshida Shoin and Hashimoto Sanai line the precinct.

A Tendai temple that has carried the dharma through Yotsuya since the Edo period—its precincts, lined with old stone Buddhas, still observe the equinox and Jodoe ceremonies each year.