Yasukuni-jinja Shrine
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HarperHarper
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Solo Travel in Tokyo
Malala YousafzaiMalala Yousafzai
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🇯🇵 Ringing in the New Year at Tokyo's Prince Shrine ⛩️
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This shrine is apparently made after the world wars and remembrance for us. The place is very very big and neat after the newly designed parking lots and shops. In summer there is 3 days summer festival (the picture attached below) which is very awesome and very Japanese alike. very very famous one too. I enjoyed the festival, but there are a few problems... THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE!!! You can hardly walk around freely. And also because this summer festival is famous and many people come, food and drink is so so so expensive, for example, you can get Coca-Cola at the convenience store at like 150yen (dollar and 50cents or so)but if you want to get it summer pop up shops, they cost like 400yen (which is like 4doller and 20cents) and that is hella expensive. Apart from those summer festival issues, the overall rating is 4 out of 5. And that is pretty decent in my opinion. And if you go on the not festive season (excluding summer festival, New Years’ greetings and end of war remembrance day) the atmosphere is very very nice. And also you can enjoy old Japanese culture and quietness. Enjoy Japan and Tokyo!! Enjoy yaskuni shrine!!
Ryutaro Matsumura (Ryu)Ryutaro Matsumura (Ryu)
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It is a pretty shrine, surrounded by pretty Sakura in full bloom during my visit. As pretty as it is, it is also controversial. I have added two photos of a leaflet that was distributed in the shrine. It is a painful reminder of how humans are manipulated into offering their lives. It is a sad reminder that many young ones perished in faraway lands for nothing but ''the country that they loved'. It is an angering reminder that those young ones took the lives of innocents and those who defended their country against invaders. It is an alarming reminder that their actions are still glorified by this shrine. Take a moment and ask yourself what a 23 year old was doing in China, for what purpose and how necessary his death was. Being elevated does not have to mean to blindly discard the value of your life for 'the country that you love'. Let this shrine be an important reminder that peace must be preserved and let it not be a glorification of manipulated 'martyrs'.
Ali Emre KepenekAli Emre Kepenek
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It certainly was interesting getting the Japanese point of view on the aggression thatwas both delivered and received by them ever since it was forced to open its gate by the U.S. gun boats. The museum doesn't feature a lot of information in English, which can be a little frustrating. It does have a display of a Japanese "Zero" attack plane and a personal 1 seater submarine that was also used during the Kamikaze raids. It is too bad that the Japanese don't make peace with their history and try to learn from it. There is a definite truism to the claims made in the museum that Imperialist encroachment on Asia forced their hand, but discarding the war crimes comitted by Japanese soldiers in Burma and Korea (They are regarded in the museum as "The Korean Incident". Seriously.) made Yushukan feel more like propaganda than a museum. Too bad.
Itay C.Itay C.
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Nearby Attractions Of Yasukuni-jinja Shrine
Tokyo Daijingu
Nippon Budokan
Science and Technology Museum
Kita-no-maru Park
Chidorigafuchi Park
Hotel Monterey Hanzomon
Yushukan Museum
Zenkoku-ji Temple
National Showa Memorial Museum
TKP Ichigaya Conference Center
Tokyo Daijingu
4.4
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Nippon Budokan
4.4
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Science and Technology Museum
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Kita-no-maru Park
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Nearby Restaurants Of Yasukuni-jinja Shrine
Canal Cafe
No.4
Gyozanomise Okei
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Le Bretagne Creperie
Kagurazaka Saryō
Menya Shono
Nihonbashi Kaisen Don Tsujihan Kagurazaka
Oreryu Shio Ramen Kagurazaka
VMG Café Kudan Kaikan Terrace
Canal Cafe
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No.4
4.1
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Gyozanomise Okei
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Takeko
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Address
3 Chome-1-1 Kudankita, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-0073, Japan
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Phone
+81 3-3261-8326
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Website
yasukuni.or.jp
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4.4
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attractions: Tokyo Daijingu, Nippon Budokan, Science and Technology Museum, Kita-no-maru Park, Chidorigafuchi Park, Hotel Monterey Hanzomon, Yushukan Museum, Zenkoku-ji Temple, National Showa Memorial Museum, TKP Ichigaya Conference Center, restaurants: Canal Cafe, No.4, Gyozanomise Okei, Takeko, Le Bretagne Creperie, Kagurazaka Saryō, Menya Shono, Nihonbashi Kaisen Don Tsujihan Kagurazaka, Oreryu Shio Ramen Kagurazaka, VMG Café Kudan Kaikan Terrace
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