Nezu Shrine

The experience

Shinto shrine moved to its present Nezu site in 1705 by the shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, with the whole complex dating from 1706 in ishi-no-ma-zukuri style. The tower gate, main hall and karamon are Important Cultural Properties and survived both the 1923 earthquake and the 1945 bombing. A hillside path runs through a tunnel of small vermilion torii to the Otome Inari sub-shrine, beside a 6,600 sqm garden of around 3,000 azaleas.

A 300-year-old shrine complex with its own miniature torii tunnel, ten minutes from Yanaka and barely queued.

What 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.