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Private Half-Day Walking Tour in YANAKA Highlights
Duration
4 hours
Overview
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Tour of YANAKA’s highlights such as historic Temples and traditional Japanese folk crafts shops etc. viewing various cherry trees to learn about Japanese traditional culture.(Every highlight has its own “theme” to learn about!!)
1.Walking around YANAKA Cemetery noted for the stunning cherry tree tunnel extending 300m there and the last Shogun’s grave.(Historical background of Japanese complicated religious concept)
2.Tour of Temples with weeping cherry trees having exquisitely dropping branches.(Buddhism and controlled society through the temple-parishioner system during the Edo Period)
3.Tour of traditional Japanese folk crafts shops and studios deeply rooted in this Temple Town.(The aesthetic senses and craftsmanship handed down for generations here.)
4.Visiting Tokyo’s oldest Shinto-shrine of “Nezu” noted for its magnificent and mysterious views. (Getting insight into Shinto,Japanese indigenous polytheism to make clear the mystery of their religious tolerance)
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