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Tokyo
Tokyo oldest temple, fronted by the lantern-lit Nakamise shopping street.
Kyoto
A refined Zen retreat with a moss garden and a cone of raked silver sand.
Japan's most famous Zen rock garden — fifteen stones in raked gravel.
Arashiyama's top temple, with a borrowed-scenery pond garden by the mountains.
A grand Zen complex with a towering gate and a photogenic brick aqueduct.
A 120-metre hall lined with 1,001 golden statues of Kannon.
Home to Japan's tallest wooden pagoda, five storeys against the Kyoto sky.
Gion's guardian shrine, gateway to Maruyama Park's cherry blossoms.
A bright vermilion shrine fronted by a giant torii gate.
Kyoto's greatest autumn temple — a valley of maples viewed from a wooden bridge.
A tranquil garden temple with giant camphor trees and evening illuminations.
The Tokugawa family temple beneath Tokyo Tower, home to the oldest wooden gate in the city.
A 300-year-old shrine famous for its tunnel of red torii gates and springtime azalea hillside.
The tranquil 'lucky cat' temple in Setagaya where hundreds of white maneki-neko sit stacked in prayer.
Akihabara's 1,300-year-old guardian shrine, patron of merchants, prosperity and — today — technology.
The shogun's protective shrine in Nagatacho, ringed by skyscrapers and a hidden red torii staircase.
Tokyo's shrine of scholarship, wreathed in plum blossom and students' exam prayers each February.
The Zen temple where Japan's legendary 47 Ronin are buried beside the lord they died to avenge.
A retro shitamachi temple of jaw-dropping wood carvings, reached down a nostalgic old sweet-shop street.
Tokyo's largest Hachiman shrine, birthplace of professional sumo and home to a jewel-studded golden mikoshi.
A astonishing Indian-inspired Buddhist temple of stone domes and stained glass beside Tsukiji market.
Nara
Nara's vermilion Fujiwara shrine, famous for thousands of bronze and stone lanterns lining a forested mountain approach.
Home to the world's oldest wooden buildings, this 7th-century temple was Japan's first UNESCO World Heritage Site.
An imperial temple in Nishinokyo whose original 8th-century East Pagoda is nicknamed 'frozen music' for its rhythm.
