This temple is on the top of a little hill, you have a great view from here down on the park and road.

Small temple enshires Guanyin in Ueno Garden. The paint horse is available for offerings. Beautiful Cherry Blossoms around there in the spring season on every year.

Historic temple building which was originally built in 1631 has been designated as an important cultural property of Japan. The principle image of the temple is Senju-kannnon ( Avalokitasvara/Guanyin with 1000 arms) which is available for viewing only once a year in February (Better to check the date at their website.) Senju-Kannon is said to be created by Eshin Souzu Genshin (942-1016) and was worshiped at Kiyomizu-dera temple in Kyoto. Thus this building was built in imitation of Kiyomizu-dera (famous for its stage) and this name of "Kiyomizu-Kannon-do" was named after the Kiyomizu-dera. The view of the temple looked great with unique circle-shape pine tree from the downstairs.

Kiyomizu shrine Founded in 1631, it is part of the once-important Kanyeji temple complex built on the orders of the first Tokugawa shogun, Ieyasu, with whose name the history of Tokyo is directly connected. The Kiyomizu shrine, preserved from its former glory, is dedicated to the thousand-armed Kannon. Traditionally, women who dream of a child come here to pray. After their prayers are answered, the happy family brings a doll to the altar. On September 25, a special ceremony is held at the temple during which the dolls brought are burned as an offering to the merciful Kannon. The site of Kaneiji Shrine was not chosen by chance: it was assumed that evil spirits would appear from the northeast, and Kaneiji was meant to protect the city and the shogun dynasty itself. Another of the few structures that remain of the Kaneiji temple complex is the five-story 17th-century pagoda. It is truly a gem inside Ueno park and you have to visit this ancient shrine. You can get here by walk from Ueno Station on the JR Yamanote and Keihin Tohoku lines and the Ginza Line of the Tokyo Subway, also short walk from Ueno-mae Station on the Keisei Line.

One of two world heritage side shrine/temple in Ueno Park. This one is the Mother Mercy Temple. Very well preserved, amazing and surreal experience like going thru time machine ...

This temple is very well know for tauki no matsu, the tree which is form a moon like shape. This temple has historical value and has beautiful sakura trees. The view from the top is very good for viewing the sakura trees at the lower level. The temple has the statue of kannon which I felt was really scary.

A small temple with great design. Not really much going in here but it’s inside Ueno Park so it’s a good stop when just strolling around.

Nice temple near Ueno zoo and the tokyo national museum. Gochuin is available for 500 yen at time of posting, but it comes premade.

This temple is extremely touristy. It's almost impossible to get inside for a look at certain times of day. I assume it's not always this busy! The tree that's been trained to grow in a circle is pretty interesting, but that's outside.

This esoteric Buddhist temple is a bit of a mishmash - not very beautiful...even though the wood carvings on the main building are rather nice. It is difficult to swallow the large LED display at the front of the temple advertising the times of the Goma fire ritual though. On top of that you have the hyper-modern building on the left of the temple with Sanskrit black, white and gold letters that give the temple an unnatural appearance. To make matters worse, a large part of the grounds are pure concrete and a large part of it is painted green with very smooth surface like an indoor soccer field. The highway passing by in the background does not help either. Perhaps I was in a bad mood this day...hmmm.

This temple is one of the biggest Shingon sect temple in Tokyo. What is more, they have wide shopping streets!!

Beautiful temple and the prayer was interesting. I would like to visit here again. I felt peaceful and calm inside the temple.

Very cool Buddhist temple near the subway station. Easy to find.

Lovely temple, one of the best stamps I got on my stamp book. Went there as part of a tour and was able to see a ritual inside it. Very special.

I'm hoping this is the correct temple. We went to a ceremony where the monks spoke and played the drums. It was a very special 30 minutes.

Fire ceremony (approx. 30 min at 9a, 11a, 1p, 3p, 5p) is absolutely worth it.

Majestic place. There's a fire chanting ceremony in the hall (didn't take photos out of respect).

I'm not a big expert on Buddhism, but some days there are services, during which woods with people's requests are burned and things are celebrated with fire. The impressive drumming of Buddhist monks does not leave anyone indifferent. Worth seeing, feeling, hearing! After the service, there is a small market in the courtyard where you can buy unusual things such as money brooms. Why not buy it and try it!

It’s good a shrine in the city to get a glimpse of Japanese culture & monks. They have displays inside the shrine which give insight on the history and culture.

It’s a Buddhist temple which is very huge and has a history of it’s own. It’s more like a museum where you can pray as well as go around inside to see the structure and other older pictures and statues of gods.

Highly recommend the Sunday morning 9am fire ceremony The drums and prayers are enchanting.

The temple in itself is fairly normal, but beautiful. You can walk inside (free of charge) but don't forget to take of your shoes of course. The fire rituals they have every few hours is very impressive to experience! Try it out.

We visited for the fire ceremony, which was impressive. For believers it probably means a lot. It would have been nice to get a fact sheet in English...

Crowded but worth visiting. Beautiful surroundings. Right beside omiya park.

We walked from Omiya Station to Musashi Ichinomiya Hikawa Jinja. The autumn leaves What a beautiful we took a small stop at the Manju shop. We had finished our Goshuincho and had to purchase a new one. The shrine is beautiful with lots of things to see. There is a park nearby and we enjoyed the sight of the Ginko threes turning yellow.

Beautiful shrine covering a huge area in the Omiya Park. A crowded yet peaceful location. This made me feel that the atmosphere of this place is a bit different from the other shrines.

I went there around the end of Nov 22. Some maple leaves still red. Nice and beutiful park for relaxing and enjoyng nature around you. You can walk here from nearest JR station about 15 mins.

its very nice place that so colorful and so many people to come and pray and enjoy the moment and nature so clean and the staff in the parking lot guide you were can we park thank u so much ☺️ in the great experience ♥️🙏

Biggest Shrine in town. Beautiful grounds and a lot of history. It gets quite crowded around new years. Great atmosphere. This is a where I get my annual Omomori.

The most important shrine in Saitama Prefecture, the historians of Hikawa Shrine trace its founding to over 1,400 years ago. Many famous leaders over these many centuries have visited here. It boasts a promenade of almost 2 km from its entrance and is adjacent to Omiya Park.

Wonderful! Highly recommended to visit when in Omiya.

This shrine is medium in size. But the path leading to the main shrine is very long, There are trees to enjoy. The inside of the shrine was quiet and has a unique Japanese architectural building.

A very peaceful shrine with a beautiful stream running across it. I had a wonderful time here meditating and hanging around 🌸☺️

A wonderful shrine in Saitama, easily accessible from the Keihin Tohoku line. It’s like being in a mini Kyoto in the middle of Saitama. A very popular place with families on weekends as it has ponds and a park. There was also a goshuincho and goshuin exhibition being held.

This shrine was founded in Japan about 2,500 years ago. There is something significant gigantic energetic about it.

A shrine reminiscent of Meiji Jingu in Omote Sando. Make sure you do the walk up to the shrine trough the large torii gates, bypassing some interesting art (at least for now) on the way. The shrine itself is a mix of color and wood, with an open setting that is family friendly. When I went there was a goshuin exhibition of shrines in Sumida. A nice shrine away from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo!

We had a lovely tour with an English tour guide (Turton?) who was very polite and knowledgeable showing us the selected exhibition trees. I even learnt a few things, and I used to work in a bonsai nursery! (In the UK). After the tour, I was overwhelmed by the main garden. Every tree was beautiful. If I could have stayed forever I would.

Good place to visit in Saitama, regardless you’re a bonsai lover or not!

Unique and precious collection of bonsai plants. Some of the trees are about 1000 years old. The receptionist gave us senior discounts which was only 150 yen each. Parking was free for 2 hours, and we spent 1 hour 50 minutes including walking around Bonsai Village and also having lunch nearby.

Amazing place if you want to see a 1000 years old bonsai. A very nice staff helping you to connect to the audio platform to listen to short stories about bonsais. You can also buy your own bonsai in an open air shop at the back of the museaum. I highly recommend.

Absolutely amazing. Very well done and elegant museum that explains and showcases the art of bonsai. Apart from the great bonsai collection they have thoroughly English explanations on the history, techniques and philosophy of Bondai.

To know more about the origin and culture of bonsai, planting and conditioning, this is a good destination, just pick a sunny day for the visit, the ticket is about 300/350 yen

This was a fantastic experience full of many surprises! Based on the reviews we thought we were going to spend 1-2 hours at the museum and then return to Tokyo for the rest of the day. What the reviews fail to mention is that there is not only the beautifully curated museum (with an excellent audio tour of every bonsai), but once you have spent anywhere from 1-3 hours there depending on your depth of interest (bring a sketch book!), you can have lunch at the bonsai restaurant across the street (assuming they are open) and then tour the 6 remaining historical bonsai gardens in the neighborhood for free. Not to mention the bonus manga museum (we ran out of time to visit but had we known, we would have started the day earlier). ALSO, if you go during blossom season, make sure to fit in Omiya Koen just a little further south- there is an incredible huge grove of cherry blossom trees! My recommended itinerary would be to get to Toro station by 10am, take the short walk south to the museum; have lunch after; tour the gardens and manga museum; have a tea break or pick up snacks from the convenience store and head to the park to picnic. Depart from Omiya Koen station. This could fill your whole day and makes the long trip to get there worthwhile. The walking distances are not far at all. You might spend anywhere from 10-30 minutes per garden depending on how much you want to immerse yourself. The only warning I have is to bring a parasol in hot weather and that the neighborhood is surprisingly lacking in restaurants/cafes/convenience stores, so you may want to come prepared with your own lunch and lots of snacks/drinks just in case! Best done in fine weather to make the most of all the sites!

Amazing place with some fantastic trees and very interesting histories. It does a good job representing the history of bonsai - it's popularity is yet to peak, it seems, as its popularity has only really started booming in the past 50-100 years, which makes the 300-500 year old trees on display all the more amazing. Well worth a visit if you're a bonsai fan, and the nearby bonsai village has some even more amazing bonsai trees. The museum has a little shop with some nice souvenirs, and don't miss the shop selling pots and trees in the car park! Overall a great experience, highly recommended.

I really love the way this place is set up. First, the museum walks you through the basics of the art of bonsai, so you can start looking at bonsai through a slightly more educated lens. Then, you get to see some of their amazing collection out in the garden! It’s fun to see how these tiny trees are so carefully grown over hundreds of years.

Beautiful bonsai. The history aspect of the museum, covering both the art of bonsai and the Omiya area itself, were well done and graciously translated in English. The security guard made us feel welcomed and happy to meander through the outside area.

Beautiful space with impressive trees as well as sample display rooms. A great spot to start your tour of the village. Easy train ride from central Tokyo.

Museum is nice but I did not feel it is worth it, unless you are super interested in Bonsai Arts and history displayed in exhibition hall. The bonsai trees are beautiful but they are very limited in number. Entire museum can be seen in less than 30 minutes even if you walk capturing photo of each bonsai. May be I did not have that “viewpoint” but you get to see prettier trees in different nurseries around the nearby area for free..

If you love Bonsai it is a place not to miss. Museum is not a big one, but would you imagine to find a bonsai of a 1000 years ? If you on a rush maybe this place will help you to find your inner relax moment.

First bonsai museum of the world. It’s really pretty I loved, it’s a great place to see old bonsais of up to 800 years. It show the history of it and they have a large amount of bonsais. If you love bonsais it really worth the visit. The staff is really nice too!

Lots of beautiful flowers. Nice old train you can ride for 400 yen adult price ticket. Feels like being outside Japan seeing the environment and the old houses.

I went here for a special lighting event in 2023 nov. The theme and the decoration is stunning. Sat on the small train and went through the park once at night is quite special too

Very helpful that you can bring your cats and dogs with you and the establishment is quite big there are so many places where you could walk to and spend time and you could and also should bring your own food and spend here the whole day. We didn't even manage to see half of it. And then if there are no clouds you will be able to have wonderful views of Mount Fuji however even on a fully sunny day Mount Fuji will still find a bunch of clouds just around itself so that you can see it. If it is important to you make sure to check on the website for the Fuji visibility since it is quite accurate. They serve food but would not recommend Canada village because they didn't put the effort to join the travel coupon Grant and you cannot use your coupons there only at English village Costa coffee. Speaking of that the lady from the British double decker bus Costa coffee was so friendly and nice and understanding and helpful we liked her a lot and also the fact that we could use our travel points there and her pasta being half of expensive as the one in Canada village. There is also a Rose garden with standard basic Rose types, beautiful Japanese garden with pond and traditional arched bridge and there's a road to this park the rooms where Soseki a famous Japanese novelist used to stay and write his books and have a memorial of it where you can get inside and see how it was long ago. For every season they have the seasonal flowers blooming hydrangea wisteria Iris cherry blossom and the red Autumn leaves. In Winter they organize very extensive illuminations scattered in the park but they charge quite much for that entrance ticket and you cannot stay with your daytime ticket you have to get out and buy a new one which is very not practical crazy expensive. It's a small train riding around the park however you have to pay extra for that one too. Toilets are for free though 😂. They have thatched roof old type of buildings and American-Indian village and if Lucky Mount Fuji can be photographed in many places they have installations for your selfie taking operation and even have poles where you could insert your phone and use a self timer to take your selfies.

I really enjoyed my trip here. We went there the morning after a big typhoon and so there weren’t many people. If you don’t like bugs or being in nature I don’t recommend it. We started the day on the train and went to the Canadian village where we enjoyed the kaleidoscope museum and learning about their sister city. Next, we walked through the fairy and Japanese garden to go up to the craft village. We had so much fun making a name plate and wine holder. The lady there was so kind and encouraging. Unforgettable experience. It could be expensive, my name plate was around 2000 yen, but if you pick a smaller plate and do just your name I think you could make it for only around 1000 yen. The views were very nice from the village and I fell into the koi pond at the Japanese garden lol. We had so much fun at a restaurant in the Izu village! The British village definitely seemed the most worn out but I think it was fun. Price wise I guess it could be expensive for a place that not even everything is open and stuff. I didn’t think the walk around was that long at all as there were various things to see and do along the way. Walk through the garden to get from one side to another and not on the road. I think that many places need improvement and we’re not the cleanest but it is an old place. If you just namedrop a nearby ryokan like arai they will give you a 400 yen discount lol. For 800 yen I definitely think it was worth it but you have to consider; do you like walking around in nature? Do you mind older facilities? Do you mind dropping money on various things here and there? If you prepare your mind accordingly I think you can have a great time.

Speaking of the tourist destination of Shuzenji in Izu, it was "Niji no Sato". I was looking forward to paying the entrance fee and entering the park. The parking lot was also charged. There were very few customers. Are there few flowers blooming in June? The park is very large, but there are very few attractions. If you look forward to seeing the beautiful flowers, you will be disappointed. I simply go to enjoy nature, so if you have one, it would be a good place to take a walk. Several shops were closed, probably because there were few customers. That's too bad.

I am rating this 3 because I don't really find it a good place to enjoy with. The amount of money you get to spend for the entire place plus the entrance fee is not really worth it for me. I was expecting a jaw-dropping scenery and services but nah. Just a so-so type of place. I am definitely not going back here.

Nice place to bring the family and pets. They have activities for kids. We enjoy the scenery while walking.

A very well designed and built UK theme park. I think it’s actually very well done. It may be a little old but I think it is still very aesthetically pleasing. It can be a little creepy because there are very few people around (maybe because of COVID-19). But I am sure when it is during its peak period, it could be more fun. This park is MASSIVE and you should allocated minimally 2-3 hours if you really want to explore the whole park. There is even a view point to see Mt Fuji. There are a lot of food stalls all over the park so you don’t have to worry about being hungry or thirsty. I would definitely go back again if I were to be at this area.

Go to see. shuzenji Garden Nishino Sato, a simulated theme park. English village Including the Nada village, a German village And there is also a museum Ancient steam trains and The museum of ancient children's toys as well. Including the back, walking down the stairs from him there is still a Japanese-style garden. There is a shady atmosphere, full of beautiful trees and a pond for ducks and carp. There are restaurants, cafes, shops in the same area. It is a very wide area because it is in the valley so you have to walk a long distance. But here there is a service to sit. The old steam train provided To go down to various points as well, including a vintage British car to sit with.