Meiji Jingu Shrine (also known as Emperor Meiji Shrine). The temple is located right next to Yoyogi Park, Shibuya district, Tokyo city.
Explore the sacred Meiji Jingu Shrine
Origin of the ancient temple
This temple was built in 1920 to commemorate and worship the 12th emperor. The late 19th century emperor of Japan was Emperor Meiji - a man with great merits in Japan's reform and renovation in the year. 1868, making the country more modern to become a capitalist power and escape the risk of becoming a Western colony with his queen Shoken. Meiji Jingu Shrine is a famous Shinto shrine in Tokyo. This is an attractive place to visit, every year the temple welcomes a large number of tourists. Many countries around the world and local tourists have come to visit, learn history, pray for luck at this temple.
This Meiji Temple is built with simple colors and is not too prominent and dazzling like other temples. The temple is divided into 2 main areas. The inner garden has smaller temples and the outer garden is home to a sports field and a war room. To enter the grounds of the inner garden, visitors will pass through two 12-meter-high Torii gates made from cypress wood about 1500 years old. You can rest assured that the temple is open from morning to night and admission is free. From the gate, visitors have to walk about 10 minutes to get to the main hall. Please wash your hands and mouth at the bleaching station at the temple entrance before entering the shrine!
If you visit Meiji Jingu Shrine during winter or autumn, you will be rewarded with a beautiful natural setting.
Head north of the shrine and you'll come across the Meiji Jingu Treasure House. It was built 1 year after the temple was opened. This house contains the personal belongings of the emperor and empress. In the east built an exhibition museum. In the south, you have to buy tickets to enter the inner garden to visit. Especially in mid-June, this garden becomes special with fragrant flower petals, a small well located in the garden.
Like people in other countries, the Japanese have a traditional custom of going to temples on the occasion of the new year to pray for happiness, health, and peace for their families and loved ones. As a famous and sacred temple, every new year, this place welcomes about 3 million visitors to worship and ask for fortune. A special feature is that traditional-style weddings will also be held at Meji jingu
