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Koishikawa Korakuen is a Japanese stroll garden with Chinese flavors. It was created in 1629 as the garden attached to the main residence of a powerful feudal lord.

Denzuin is a Jodo Buddhist temple. There's a graveyard where Tokugawa clan's women's and children's large gravestones are erected.

Ana Hachimangu is a well maintained Shinto shrine. In October, a Yabusame is held at this shrine.

Kansen'en is a small Japanese stroll garden foundation of which dates back to the feudal times. Mizu Inari Jinja is a Shinto shrine next to the garden.

Akagi Jinja is a Shinto shrine whose complex was designed by starchitect Kuma Kengo.

This site, established as the shogunate-run medicinal herb garden in 1684 to provide commoners with herbs, is now a botanical garden belonging to Tokyo University. Though rather small as a botanical garden, it has a Japanese stroll garden dating back to the feudal times. The Western style building standing at the northwestern corner of the garden was built in 1876 as a medical school and is now used as the annex of the University Museum of Tokyo University.

Gokuji is a major Shingon Buddhist temple in Tokyo. This temple was not bombard in WWII and thus preserves a complex built before the war. This temple is also famous for sado (tea ceremony) and thus has many tea houses.

This Japanese stroll garden, which now belongs to Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo, was created by a prominent Meiji-era politician and top army general. There's an entrance to this garden on the footpath along the Kanda River flowing south of the garden.

Higo-Hosokawa Teien, formerly called Shin-edogawa Koen until 2017, is a not-so-large Japanese stroll garden which used to be part of a mansion where a former domain lord family lived.

This mansion was constructed as the residence of a successful industrialist in 1917. Near the entrance there's a Western-style building and garden, and located below them a Japanese garden.

Muryoji is a Shingon Buddhist temple with beautiful precincts.

Oji Inari Jinja is a Shinto shrine whose main building is a colorful one built in the Edo era. the Fox Procession is held on New Year's Eve and the Tako-ichi is held in February here.

Nanushi no Taki Garden is a Japanese stroll garden initially created by a rich farmer in the Edo era. It is created on a hillside and has four waterfalls.

Rikugien is a Japanese stroll garden created by a high-ranking Tokugawa shogunate official in 1702. Many elements of this garden are related to Japanese Waka poetry. The garden will be illuminated at in fall and in spring.

Kichijoji is a Soto Zen temple where gravestones of feudal lords stand in the graveyard.

Hakusan Jinja is a Shinto shrine at which the Hydrangea Festival is held in June.

Zoshigaya Kishimojindo is a Buddhist temple which resembles a Shinto shrine. It belongs to Nichiren Buddhist temple Homyoji nearby. The Oeshiki held in October is a large festival.

This house museum, constructed in 1941, used to be the residence of famous female novelist Hayashi Fumiko.

Yakuoin is a Shongon Buddhist temple with well-maintained precincts. It's also famous for its peony flowers in April.