Hanazono Jinja Review

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Hanazono Jinja

  • Address: 5-17-3 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
  • Phone: 03/3209-5265

Fodor's Review:

Constructed in the early Edo period, Hanazono is not among Tokyo's most imposing shrines, but it does have one of the longest histories. Prayers offered here are believed to bring prosperity in business. The shrine is a five-minute walk north on Meiji-dori from the Shinjuku-san-chome subway station. The block just to the west (5-chome 1) has the last embattled remaining bars of the "Golden-Gai": a district of tiny, unpretentious, even seedy, nomiya (bars) that in the '60s and '70s commanded the fierce loyalty of fiction writers, artists, freelance journalists, and expat Japanophiles—the city's hard-core outsiders.

  • Cost: Free
  • Open: Daily sunrise-sunset
  • Subway: Marunouchi subway line, Shinjuku-san-chome Station (Exits B2 and B3)
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