Meiji-jingū

First stop is Tokyo’s grandest shintō Shrine dedicated to the Emperor Meiji and Empress Shōken (1868-1912)- their rule is one that moved Japan from an isolated feudal nation to a modern nation state. It is for that reason that many in Japan therefore see the pair as the mother and father of modern Japan. The gardens around the shrine have some 120,000 trees from all over Japan.Read more