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The experience
Shinto shrine dedicated to Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken, opened in 1920 and set inside a forest of roughly 100,000 trees donated from across Japan and planted from scratch. Wide gravel approaches pass under large cypress torii and a wall of donated sake barrels; the present main buildings are a 1958 reconstruction after wartime bombing. It draws over three million visitors for hatsumode at New Year.
A ten-minute walk turns central Tokyo into deep forest, which is exactly what it was engineered to do.
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Where it is
Tokyo, Japan · Yoyogi / Harajuku. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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