Kanda Myojin Shrine / Akihabara, Tokyo

Akihabara is well known as its electric town. but there's a wonderful shrine around there. so I recommend you to visit there too.

Access:

1.From JR Akihabara Station Electric Town Exit.
   When you pass through a ticket gate, first left and second right like this.

2.Take your turn left.

3.Go straight.

4.You will see a Gate which called "Torii".
   Pass through a gate.

5.You will arrive at Kanda Myojin Shrine.
   It takes about 10 minutes from Akihabara Station.

Let you purify your hands before enter a shrine's site.

Kanda Myojin was established in 730.
Current building was built in 1934.

So, please take a look around of shrine site.

Usually the most shrines close at night. but Kanda Shrine open 24 hours a day.
Illuminated Kanda Shrine at night feels like mysterious atomsphere

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Odawara Castle / Odawara, Kanagawa

The old castles can not been seen in Tokyo any more. So I will show you the nearest castle from Tokyo that you can go on a day trip, Odawara Castle.

Access:
From Tokyo Station, Take JR Tokaido Line to Odawara Station.
It takes about one hour 13 minutes. The fare is 1,490yen.

If you can afford to pay for Bullet train which called Shinkansen, it will lead you to get to Odawara Station for 37 minutes. The fare is 3,220yen. Make sure to check the Shinkansen which you take to stop at Odawara Station, or the train won't stop until Nagoya Station.

Turn your right when you get through a station building and take a walk
along the railway track.

Turn right.

Over there.

It takes about ten minutes from Odawara castle to Odawara station on foot. but the way I show you is a shortcut, it's not a regular route. I guess it takes about twenty minutes if you take a regular route.

Admission fee is 500yen.
You can take the photos inside of a castle but no flash.

Would you like try on a samurai warrior's suit of armour?

Ninja darts.

Regular route.

Odawara is well known as a gateway of Hakone. If you can afford the time, I recommend you stay there for next destination like Hakone or Atami.

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