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Yushima Seido Review
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Yushima Seido
- Address: 1–4–25 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
- Phone: 03/3251–4606
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Yushima Shrine
- Category: Religious Sites
- Location: Bunkyo-ku
Fodor's Review:
Again, Akihabara shrines are of minor interest in comparison to the Asakusa Shrine, Yasukuni Shrine, and Meiji Jingu Shrine. If you have time to kill, then perhaps a short stroll through this shrine will do. The origins of this shrine date to a hall, founded in 1632, for the study of the Chinese Confucian classics. Its headmaster was Hayashi Razan, the official Confucian scholar to the Tokugawa government. Moved to its present site in 1691 (and destroyed by fire and rebuilt six times), the hall became an academy for the ruling elite. In a sense, nothing has changed: in 1872 the new Meiji government established the country's first teacher-training institute here, and that, in turn, evolved into Tokyo University – the graduates of which still make up much of the ruling elite. The hall looks like nothing else you're likely to see in Japan: painted black, weathered and somber, it could almost be in China.
- Cost: Free
- Open: Apr.–Sept., Fri.–Wed. 10–5; Oct.–mid-Dec. and Jan.–Mar., Fri.–Wed. 10–4
- Subway: Marunouchi subway line, Ochanomizu Station (Exit B2)
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