Kanayama shrine / Kawasaki

Kanayama shrine is visited by the people those who suffer from not having child. They goes to there to write down make a wish on the piece of board to got over it and hang them on the wall, or prostitutes goes to there to pray for protection from sexually transmitted disease.
Also, Kanayama shrine is well known as Kanamara Matsuri which is the annual festival held on the first sunday in April.


How to get there:
・From JR Kawasaki Station to Kawasaki Daishi Station
If you are staying downtown Tokyo, take a Tokaido Line東海道線 or KeihinTohoku Line京浜東北線 to JR Kawasaki Station JR川崎駅. Approximately travel time is twenty minutes from Tokyo Station.

When you passed through the ticket gate at Kawasaki Station, take your right to East exit by going down a escalator. And then, take a walk like a map which I shown below.

Keikyu Kawasaki Station 京急川崎駅

Get this train from platform 3.

It takes five minutes to get to Kawasaki Daishi Station川崎大師駅 from Keikyu Kawasaki Station京急川崎駅.

・From Kawasaki Daishi Station to Kanayama shrine金山神社.

See the map below, it only takes a couple of minutes from Kawasaki Daishi Station to Kanayama shrine.

Take this way

Go into this gate, your are there.

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